Media The Law category: 455 books
Global Media and National Policies
The Return of the State
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption. Global Media and National Policies questions those assumptions and shows not only that the nation-state never left...
by Veronika Minkova
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Law - Media, Multimedia Law, Copyright, grade: 1,3, University of Reading, course: Intellectual property rights, language: English, abstract: One of the main functions of trade mark law is to reconcile conflicting interests of trade mark owners and third parties....
The Post-Racial Mystique
Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Despite claims from
pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seem
to keep finding ways to talk about race—from celebrations of the inauguration
of the first Black president to resurgent debates about police
profiling, race and racism remain salient features of our...
Secretly installed dialers
The legal position concerning hidden dial-ups
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Law - Media, Multimedia Law, Copyright, grade: 1,7, University of Lüneburg (Rechtswissenschaften), course: Computer Law II, 21 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The first chapter of the paper is to introduce the topic and to...
Speaking Our Minds
Conversations With the People Behind Landmark First Amendment Cases
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
Tinker. R.A.V. Ollman. Hustler-Falwell. Reno-ACLU. Nebraska Press Association. These names are synonymous with contemporary First Amendment litigation. To explore these landmark cases more deeply, author Joseph Russomanno interviewed the people at the core of these and other influential First Amendment...
There is No Such Thing as a Free Press
...and we need one more than ever
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
The aim of this book is to a launch a polemic for the freedom of the press against all of the attempts to police, defile and sanitise journalism today. Once the media reported the news. Now it makes it. From the phone-hacking scandal to rows about press regulation, super-injunctions, leaks, libel...
Civic Engagement and Social Media
Political Participation Beyond Protest
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
The Occupy movement and the Arab Spring have brought global attention to the potential of social media for empowering otherwise marginalized groups. This book addresses questions like what happens after the moment of protest and global visibility and whether social media can also help sustain civic engagement beyond protest.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
Journalism and the Debate Over Privacy situates the discussion of issues of privacy in the landscape of professional journalism. Privacy problems present the widest gap between what journalism ethics suggest and what the law allows. This edited volume examines these problems in the context of both...
by A. Hadland
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The news media and the state are locked in a battle of wills in the world's emerging democratic states. It is a struggle that will determine whether or not democracy flourishes or withers in the 21st century. Using a number of case studies, including South Africa, this book evaluates what is at stake.
Power, Media, Culture
A Critical View from the Political Economy of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
This book updates and revalidates critical political economy of communication approaches. It is destined to become a work of reference for those interested in delving into debates arising from the performance of traditional and new media, cultural and communication policy-making or sociocultural practices in the new digital landscape.
Chronic Youth
Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure,
the repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on the brink
of success and imminent failure. Spotlighting the “troubled teen” as a site of
pop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, Chronic Youth
traces...
by Victoria Munro
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
How is hate engendered, and what causes hatred to manifest as criminal behavior? Hate Crime in the Media: A History considers how in America, perceived threats on national, physical, and/or personal space have been created by mediated understandings of different peoples, and describes how these understandings...
Community Authorship
An Exploration of the Copyright Bargain in Traditional Irish Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Master's Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Law - Media, Multimedia Law, Copyright, grade: 1, University of Limerick (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance), course: Ethnomusicology, language: English, abstract: Copyright law represents a cultural bargain: to encourage creativity, authors are...
Culture Conglomerates
Consolidation in the Motion Picture and Television Industries
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
This succinct overview explains conglomeration and regulation in the film and television industries, covering its history as well as the contemporary scene. Former producer William M. Kunz shows how the current structure of these industries has evolved and how this structure impacts the production...