New media, old regimes
Subtitle: case studies in comparative communication law and policy
By: Lyombe S. Eko
Series: Lexington studies in political communication
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739167892; 9780739167908
Subjects: Telecommunication; Communication; Law and legislation; Communication policy; Press law; Freedom of speech; Mass media; Political aspects
Table of contents: title: Mapping the terrain of comparative communication law; title: Systemic approaches to comparative communication law and policy; title: -Regulatory regimes and policy transfer; title: Politico-cultural approaches to comparative communication law and policy; title: -exceptionalism, mentalities, and asymmetries; title: The European supranational communication law and policy regime; title: Multilateral resolution of communication problems; title: -the international communications regulatory regime; title: New media, old authoritarian regimes; title: -instrumentalization of the internet and networked social media in the "Arab Spring" of 2011 in North Africa; title: Old religions, old mentalities; title: -the Mohammad cartoons affair as a clash of religious "establishmentalities"; title: New technologies, old mentalities; title: -the internet, the minitel and exceptionalist information and communication technology policy; title: New technologies, old Big Brother; title: -Internet surveillance and "governmentality" in the United States and the Russian Federation; title: American exceptionalism, the French exception, and harmonization of intellectual property law by the United States and France; title: New media, old images; title: -re-presentation of the problem of online; title: Child pornography under international, European & American law; title: New realities, old ideologies; title: -communication policy, transfers and "developmentality" in Africa; title: New media, ancient animosities: "propaganda of the deed" and; title: The laws of war in the NATO/Yugoslav War of 1999.