Social Media and the Law - A Guidebook for Communication Students and Professionals

This fully updated third edition of Social Media and the Law offers an essential guide to navigating the complex legal terrain of social media.

List of contents

1. Free Speech in Social Media, 2. Defamation, 3. Privacy, Surveillance, and Data Protection, 4. Intellectual Property, 5. Speech in a Social Space, 6. Ownership and Control, 7. Speech, 8. Obscenity, Revenge Pornography, and Cyberbullying, 9. Social Media Use in Courtrooms, 10. Media Policies for Journalists, 11. Social Media Policies for Advertising and Public Relations, 12. Future of Discourse in Online Spaces

About the author

Daxton "Chip" R. Stewart is an attorney and professor at Texas Christian University, where he teaches courses in journalism and media law. He has more than 15 years of professional experience in news media and public relations. Along with editing Social Media and the Law, he is the author of Media Law Through Science Fiction: Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech? and co-author of the textbook The Law of Public Communication.

Summary

This fully updated third edition of Social Media and the Law offers an essential guide to navigating the complex legal terrain of social media.

Product details

• Authors: Daxton R. Stewart, Daxton R. (Texas Christian University Stewart
• Assisted by: Daxton R. Stewart (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2022
• EAN: 9781032004877
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3200487-7
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; History, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LAW / Media & the Law, LAW / Intellectual Property / General, LAW / Computer & Internet, International Law, Press & journalism, LAW / Entertainment, Humanities, News media and journalism, Entertainment & media law, COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, Entertainment and media law