Lyombe S. Eko

New Media, Old Regimes

Case Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Lexington Studies in Political Communication
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 811g
• ISBN-13: 9780739167892
• ISBN-10: 0739167898
• Artikelnr.: 35360375

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Mapping the Terrain of Comparative Communication Law Part 1.
Theoretical Approaches Chapter 2. Systemic Approaches to Comparative
Communication Law and Policy: Regulatory Regimes and Policy Transfer
Chapter 3. Politico-Cultural Approaches to Comparative Communication Law
and Policy: Exceptionalism, Mentalities, and Asymmetries Chapter 4. The
European Supranational Communication Law and Policy Regime Chapter 5.
Multilateral Resolution of Communication Problems: The International
Communications Regulatory Regime Part 2. Comparative Case Studies in
International Communication Law and Policy Chapter 6. New Media, Old
Authoritarian Regimes: Instrumentalization of the Internet and Networked
Social Media in the "Arab Spring" of 2011 in North Africa Chapter 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 Policy Chapter 9. New Technologies, Old Big
Brother: Internet Surveillance and "Governmentality" in the United States
and the Russian Federation Chapter 10. American Exceptionalism, the French
Exception, and Harmonization of Intellectual Property Law by the United
States and France Chapter 11. New Media Old Images: Re-presentation of the
Problem of Online Child Pornography Under International, European, and
American Law Chapter 12. New Realities, Old Ideologies: Communication
Policy Transfers and "Developmentality" in Africa Chapter 13. New Media,
Ancient Animosities: "Propaganda of the Deed" and the Laws of War in the
NATO/Yugoslav War of 1999 Epilogue