Media The Law category: 455 books
Critiquing Free Speech
First Amendment theory and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
In this exceptional volume, Matthew D. Bunker explores the work of contemporary free speech critics and argues that, while at times these critics provide important lessons, many of their conclusions must be rejected. Moreover, Bunker suggests that we be wary of interdisciplinary approaches to free...
Playing War
Military Video Games After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The culture that made military shooter video games popular and key in understanding the War on Terror. No video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the “military shooter.” Franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and those bearing Tom Clancy’s name turn...
by Mrinalini Kochupillai
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This book develops the term ‘Sustainable Innovations’ and defines it on the basis of plant variety innovations that, by their very nature, (i) permit the in situ conservation of agrobiodiversity and genetic variability in diverse geographic and climatic conditions, (ii) do not exclude any potential...
by Gerald B. Halt, Jr., John C. Donch
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive, easy to understand guide for startup entities and developing companies, providing insight on the various sources of funding that are available, how these funding sources are useful at each stage of a company’s development, and offers a comprehensive intellectual...
Legislative XML for the Semantic Web
Principles, Models, Standards for Document Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
This volume examines the basic layers of the standard-based creation and usage of legislation. In particular, it addresses the identification of legislative documents, their structure, the basic metadata and legislative changes. Since mature technologies and established practices are already in place...
by Catherine Zimmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world, satellite technologies relentlessly pursue the targets of global conspiracies. Such plots represent only...
by Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Joshua Phillips, Mark D. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Securing privacy in the current environment is one of the great challenges of today’s democracies. Privacy vs. Security explores the issues of privacy and security and their complicated interplay, from a legal and a technical point of view. Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon provides a thorough account of...
Human Rights Movement and Discourse
Its emergence and constituition in Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
This book accounts for the process of emergence and constitution of the human rights movement and discourse during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). Central to this account is the contention that the movement's emergence and constitution should not be understood as a necessary...
Crime At El Escorial
The 1892 Child Murder, the Press, and the Jury
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Crime at El Escorial presents a comparative social and judicial analysis of an 1892 child murder, drawing from newspaper archives among other historical documents. D.J. Walker discusses the role of Spain’s intellectual elite in crystallizing dissatisfaction with the popular jury through its criticism...
Visualizing Atrocity
Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Visualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendt’s provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding both of the Nazi genocide and totalitarianism’s...
Virtuality and Capabilities in a World of Ambient Intelligence
New Challenges to Privacy and Data Protection
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book is about power and freedoms in our technological world and has two main objectives. The first is to demonstrate that a theoretical exploration of the algorithmic governmentality hypothesis combined with the capability approach is useful for a better understanding of power and freedoms in...
Terror and the War on Dissent
Freedom of Expression in the Age of Al-Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Located within wider debates about ‘security versus liberty’ in our post 9/11 world, the book analyses the new landscape of UK counter terrorism powers and offences and focuses upon the deleterious consequences of the so-called ‘war on terror’ on freedom of political expression and association....
Television Courtroom Broadcasting Effects
The Empirical Research and the Supreme Court Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Court and policy makers have increasingly had to deal with—and sometimes even embrace—technology, from podcasts to the Internet. Televised courtroom broadcasting especially remains an issue. The debate surrounding the US Supreme Court and federal courts, as well as the great disparity between...
by Giovanni Ziccardi
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
This book explains strategies, techniques, legal issues and the relationships between digital resistance activities, information warfare actions, liberation technology and human rights. It studies the concept of authority in the digital era and focuses in particular on the actions of so-called digital...