Mass Media Law: The Printing Press to the Internet is a textbook designed to introduce students to the panoply of legal theories raised by the Internet revolution as well as those supporting traditional media. The book takes a historical approach beginning with the printing press and the telegraph and proceeding to the digital technologies of today, such as social media and search engines.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt used radio fireside chats to connect with millions of ordinary Americans. The highly articulate and telegenic John F. Kennedy was dubbed the first TV president. Ronald Reagan, the so-called Great Communicator, had a conversational way of speaking to the common man. Bill Clinton left his mark on media industries by championing and signing the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law. Barack Obama was the first social media presidential campaigner and president. And now there is President Donald J. Trump. Because so much of what has made Donald Trump’s candidacy and presidency unconventional has been about communication―how he has used Twitter to convey his political messages and how the news media and voters have interpreted and responded to his public words and persona―21 communication and media scholars examine the Trump phenomenon in Communication in the Age of Trump. This collection of essays and studies, suitable for communication and political science students and scholars, covers the 2016 presidential campaign and the first year of the Trump presidency.
Anti-cyberbullying laws : a sober analysis through the moral panic theory lens -- Cyberbullying and free speech -- The unnecessary and unjust creation of virtual juvenile delinquents -- Enclaves of totalitarism -- Censorship redux : the 21st century attack on the First Amendment Right of public criticism by the use of cyberharassment, cyberstalking and online impersonation laws -- Image control : who loses when teen sexting and revenge porn are criminalized -- The short life & quick death of the first cyberbullying law in canada (August 6, 2013-December 10, 2015)