Social Media in Legal Practice

Herausgeber: Bhatia, Vijay; Tessuto, Girolamo

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume focuses on three major aspects of mediated communication through social media. It will be a valuable reference for international scholars in law and other socio-legal studies, discourse analysis, and practitioners in legal and alternative dispute resolution contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Law, Language and Communication
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780367347727
• ISBN-10: 0367347725
• Artikelnr.: 59986979

Autorenporträt

Vijay K Bhatia retired as Professor from the City University of Hong Kong and is now a Visiting Professor at the Hellenic American University in Athens, and Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Girolamo Tessuto is Professor of English Language, Linguistics and Translation, Department of Law, University of Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', Caserta, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction;
SECTION 1: SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE LEGAL COMMUNITY;
1. Environmental justice or 'government overreach': the rhetorical
landscape of the Gibson guitar factory raids;
2. Trial by (social) media: Anglo-Saxon and Italian practises in the
digital age;
3. Legally dead, illegally frozen? The legal aspects of cryonics as
discursively constructed online by providers and the media;
4. The fuzzy line between media and judicial discourse: insights from
the Pinto-López Madrid Case;
5. Ideological positioning in Amnesty International human rights
web-based documents;
6. Argumentation and video evidence in a legal context: an
interdisciplinary case study from Brazilian military justice;
SECTION 2: SOCIAL MEDIA FOR CLIENT EMPOWERMENT;
7. The discursive construction of Hong Kong's Civic Square in the media:
contesting social and legal perspectives;
8. Finding a way forward: a discourse analysis of the online
popularisation of restorative justice in the United Kingdom;
9. Helping Aussie women online: a discourse analysis of the Australian
e-safety commissioner website;
10. Discursive illusions and manipulations in legal blogs on medically
assisted procreation: Parrillo v. Italy Case;
11. Jag 2.0: legal advice and dissemination in online military lawyer
forums;
12. The web-mediated construction of interdiscursive truth(s) about the
MMR vaccine: a defamation case;
SECTION 3: CHALLENGES AND WAY FORWARD;
13. The toxic proliferation of lies and fake news in the world of social
media: is it time for the law to "unfriend" Facebook?;
14. 'Fake news' as interdiscursive illusion: a challenge to law, social
media, and free speech;
15. Information and communication technology in alternative dispute
resolution: is it facilitative or disruptive?;