Connie Hassett-Walker

Guns on the Internet

Online Gun Communities, First Amendment Protections, and the Search for Common Ground on Gun Control

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book delves into the question of whether gun-related content on social media platforms should receive free speech protection under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and explores the possibility of using social media to reach common ground between gun rights and gun control supporters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 183mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781138598034
• ISBN-10: 1138598038
• Artikelnr.: 53484117

Autorenporträt

Connie Hassett-Walker is an Assistant Professor of Justice Studies and Sociology at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. She holds a PhD in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University (2007). Her dissertation ("Delinquency and the Black Middle Class") was awarded second place by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) for the 2006 Social Issues Dissertation Award. Prior to joining the faculty at Norwich University, Dr. Hassett-Walker taught at Kean University, and worked as a research associate at the Violence Institute of New Jersey at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now Rutgers University). In 2012, she received an AREA grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine the impact of justice system involvement on youths' substance use trajectories. Her research has been published in a variety of scholarly journals including the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice. Her first book, Black Middle Class Delinquents, was published in 2009 by LFB Scholarly Publishing.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part I. The Tour: Guns, the Internet and Social Media 2.
How Gun Owners Use Social Media and the Internet 3. Gun Owner Communities
on the Internet 4. Politicians and Lobbyists Online Talking Guns 5. Women
in Online Gun Subculture Part II. First Amendment Protections for
Gun-Related Online Content: Balancing the Right to Free Speech with the
Need for Public Safety 6. The First Amendment and the Internet 7. Should
YouTube Gun-Related Videos be Protected under the First Amendment's Free
Speech Provisions? 8. Purchasing and Talking Firearms Online Part III.
Finding Common Ground? 9. Finding Common Ground?