The Legal Challenges of Social Media

David Mangan, Lorna E. Gillies (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2017
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78536-450-1 (ISBN)

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Social media offers a platform for individual self-expression and the sharing of information. However, social media issues are boundless, permeating distinct legal disciplines. The law has struggled to adapt and for good reason: how does the law regulate this medium over the public/private law divide? This book engages with the legal implications of social media from both public and private law perspectives and outlines how the law has endeavoured to adapt the existing tools to social media. The expert contributors explore a range of ideas to investigate the intersection between law and social media and they provide an insight into the challenges the legal community currently face. This collection explores key topics such as public and private law implications, the gap between the lay and legal understandings of social media, the conflict of laws regarding social media and the individual rights associated with social media.

This timely study of a complex and ever-changing area of law will be of interest to legal scholars, students and practitioners and will provide a valuable source of reference for those studying or researching media and journalism.

Contributors include: R.D. Barnes, E. Garnier, L.E. Gillies, E. Harbinja, E.B. Laidlaw, D. Mac Síthigh, D. Mangan, A. Mills, A.D. Murray, J. Rowbottom, A. Scott, I. Walden, L. Woods, P. Wragg

Edited by David Mangan, Department of Law, Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland and Lorna E. Gillies, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Contents:

Foreword
Sir Edward Garnier QC

1. Introduction
David Mangan and Lorna E. Gillies

A. Social media and the law
2. Mapping the rule of law for the internet
Andrew D. Murray

B Public order in a virtual space
3. Crime and communication: do legal controls leave enough space for freedom of expression
Jacob Rowbottom

4. Press regulation in a converging environment
Ian Walden

5. Contempt of court and new media
Daithí Mac Síthigh

6. Social media: it is not just about Article 10
Lorna Woods

C Private law responses to social media
7. What is a joke? Mapping the path of a speech complaint on social networks
Emily B. Laidlaw

8. Social media, sporting figures and the regulation of morality
Robin D. Barnes and Paul Wragg

9. Post-mortem social media: law and Facebook after death
Edina Harbinja

10. Social media in the workplace
David Mangan

11. An unwholesome layer cake: intermediary liability in English defamation and data protection law
Andrew Scott

D Cross border regulation of virtual space
12. Getting the balance right: human rights in residual jurisdiction rules of English courts for cross-border torts via social media
Lorna E. Gillies

13. Choice of law in defamation and the regulation of free speech on social media: nineteenth century law meets twenty-first century problems
Alex Mills

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Law, Technology and Society series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► IT-Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medienrecht
ISBN-10	1-78536-450-2 / 1785364502
ISBN-13	978-1-78536-450-1 / 9781785364501
Zustand	Neuware