New Media, Old Regimes (eBook)

Case Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy

Lyombe S. Eko (Autor)

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2012
492 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-6790-8 (ISBN)

Infos

New Media, Old Regimes: Case Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy, by Lyombe S. Eko, is a collection of novel theoretical perspectives and case studies in comparative communication law. Through these cases, Eko describes, explains and illustrates how a number of nation-states, transnational, and international organizations employ culture-specific “distillations” of universal principles to resolve tensions between freedom of expression and other societal interests in real space and cyberspace. This study provides essential scholarship on comparative communication law and policy.

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New Media, Old Regimes: Case Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy, by Lyombe S. Eko, is a collection of novel theoretical perspectives and case studies which illustrate how different communication law regimes conceptualize and apply universal ideals of human rights and freedom of expression to media controversies in real space and cyberspace. Eko's investigation includes such controversial communication policy topics as North African regimes' failed use of telecommunications to suppress the social change of the Arab Spring, the Mohammad cartoon controversy in Denmark and France, French and American policy of development and diffusion of the Minitel and the Internet, American and Russian regulation of internet surveillance, the problem of managing pedopornography in cyberspace and real space, and other current communication policy cases. This study will aid readers not only to understand different national and cultural perspectives of thorny communication issues, but also show that though freedom of expression is a pluralistic concept, the actions of all political regimes at the national, transnational, and international levels must be held up to the universal standards of freedom of expression set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New Media, Old Regimes provides essential scholarship on comparative communication law and policy in a world of new media.

Autor

Lyombe S. Eko is an associate professor of communication and co-director of the African Studies Program at the University of Iowa.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Mapping the Terrain of Comparative Communication LawPart 1. Theoretical ApproachesChapter 2. Systemic Approaches to Comparative Communication Law and Policy: Regulatory Regimes and Policy TransferChapter 3. Politico-Cultural Approaches to Comparative Communication Law and Policy: Exceptionalism, Mentalities, and Asymmetries Chapter 4. The European Supranational Communication Law and Policy RegimeChapter 5. Multilateral Resolution of Communication Problems: The International Communications Regulatory RegimePart 2. Comparative Case Studies in International Communication Law and PolicyChapter 6. New Media, Old Authoritarian Regimes: Instrumentalization of the Internet and Networked Social Media in the "Arab Spring" of 2011 in North AfricaChapter 7. Old Religions, Old Mentalities: The Mohammad Cartoons Affair as a Clash of Religious "Establishmentalities" Chapter 8. New Technologies, Old Mentalities: The Internet, the Minitel, and Exceptionalist Information and Communication Technology PolicyChapter 9. New Technologies, Old Big Brother: Internet Surveillance and "Governmentality" in the United States and the Russian FederationChapter 10. American Exceptionalism, the French Exception, and Harmonization of Intellectual Property Law by the United States and FranceChapter 11. New Media Old Images: Re-presentation of the Problem of Online Child Pornography Under International, European, and American LawChapter 12. New Realities, Old Ideologies: Communication Policy Transfers and "Developmentality" in AfricaChapter 13. New Media, Ancient Animosities: "Propaganda of the Deed" and the Laws of War in the NATO/Yugoslav War of 1999Epilogue

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.7.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Lexington Studies in Political Communication
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► IT-Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medienrecht
• Schlagworte: African Studies • Lexington Studies in Political Communication • Society and Politics
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-6790-1 / 0739167901
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-6790-8 / 9780739167908