Media The Law category: 455 books
by Elayne Rapping
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Law and Justice as Seen on TV examines the impact, significance, and social and political problems raised by the enormous onslaught of law-related television programming, both fiction and nonfiction, in the years since the rise of live televised trials as major media events. The book weaves together...
Media Law and Ethics in the 21st Century
Protecting Free Expression and Curbing Abuses
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Published in conjunction with the International Bar Association, this high-profile collection of writings brings together judicial, legislative, regulatory, journalistic and academic perspectives on the current state of media laws in the UK and in the US, scrutinising their efficacy in relation to the rights for privacy and free expression.
The Problem of the Media
U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets...
Spreadable Media
Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized...
by A.K. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
The study of Media Communications involves diverse areas of inquiry including: the organization of the media industry and associated professional practices; media texts, genres and representations; audiences and processes of media reception and, of course, media impact.
Balancing Privacy and Free Speech
Unwanted Attention in the Age of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
In an age of smartphones, Facebook and YouTube, privacy may seem to be a norm of the past. This book addresses ethical and legal questions that arise when media technologies are used to give individuals unwanted attention. Drawing from a broad range of cases within the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and...
by Edward H. Spence, Andrew Alexandra, Aaron Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Media, Markets, and Morals provides an original ethical framework designed specifically for evaluating ethical issues in the media, including new media. The authors apply their account of the moral role of the media, in their dual capacity as information providers for the public good and as businesses...
Media Diversity
Economics, Ownership, and the Fcc
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
Media Diversity: Economics, Ownership, and the FCC provides a detailed analysis of the regulation of diversity and its impact on the structure and practices within the broadcast television industry. As deregulation is quickly changing the media landscape, this volume puts the changing structure of...
Contemporary Latina/o Media
Production, Circulation, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
The cultural politics creating and consuming Latina/o mass media.
Just ten years ago, discussions of
Latina/o media could be safely reduced to a handful of TV channels, dominated
by Univision and Telemundo. Today, dramatic changes in the global political
economy have resulted in an unprecedented...
Pictorial Law
Modern Law and the Power of Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
We live in a digital Media Society, in which pictures are becoming more and more important. So, human communication is increasingly becoming a visual communication. That is not a new finding. But the new question is: What does this development mean for the law? Up to now the law is the part of the...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
'Law and Justice on the Small Screen' is a wide-ranging collection of essays about law in and on television. In light of the book's innovative taxonomy of the field and its international reach, it will make a novel contribution to the scholarly literature about law and popular culture. Television...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
This edited collection examines time and its relationship to and impact upon media industries, studying how the media industry views time and makes business and economic decisions based on considerations of time. Contributions from an international set of authors analyze time constraints and competition...
Crime, Media, and Reality
Examining Mixed Messages About Crime and Justice in Popular Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
In today's society, the public perception of crime has been skewed by how the media depicts it. People use the media for enjoyment, companionship, surveillance, and interpretation. The problem is that it becomes hard to separate fact from entertainment. This raises several questions. How are we consuming...
by Alan Williams, Duncan Calow, Andrew Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Now in its second edition, this work contains a collection of sample agreements, presenting annotated contracts from the digital media sector in typical formats used by the industry. It includes agreements for wireless apps, digital downloads, user generated content, social networks, and cloud content....