
Social Media and the Law
A Guidebook for Communication Students and Professionals
- 252 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This fully updated third edition of Social Media and the Law offers an essential guide to navigating the complex legal terrain of social media.
Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok have become vital tools for professionals in the news and strategic communication fields. As these services have rapidly grown in popularity, their legal ramifications have continued to develop, resulting in students and professional communicators needing to be aware of laws relating to defamation, privacy, intellectual property, and government regulation. Editor Daxton Stewart brings together eleven media law scholars to address key questions, such as the following: To what extent do communicators put themselves at risk for lawsuits when they use these tools? What rights do communicators have when other users talk about them on social networks? How can people and companies manage intellectual property issues consistent with the developing law in this area?
This book is essential for students of media, mass communication, strategic communication, journalism, advertising, and public relations, as well as professional communicators that use social media in their role.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Free Speech in Social Media
- 2 Defamation
- 3 Privacy, Surveillance, and Data Protection
- 4 Intellectual Property
- 5 Commercial Speech in a Social Space
- 6 Account Ownership and Control
- 7 Student Speech
- 8 Obscenity, Nonconsensual Pornography, and Cyberbullying
- 9 Social Media Use in Courtrooms
- 10 Social Media Policies for Journalists
- 11 Social Media Policies for Advertising and Public Relations
- 12 The Future of Discourse in Online Spaces
- Contributor
- Index