Triple Award Winner: 2006 History Division Book Award of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2006 Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Communications Award, and 2005 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research The public often views television investigative reporting as a watchdog on the government. In fact, some of the centerpiece moments of TV muckraking relied heavily on official sources for inspiration, information,...
This book presents and discusses current legal policies and programs in place in regard to computer networks, as well as various issues which affect these procedures. Topics discussed include background and issues concerning net neutrality and spyware; broadband internet access and the digital divide; broadband infrastructure programs in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative and the Google Library Project.
The convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in blockchain creates one of the world's most reliable technology-enabled decision-making systems that is virtually tamper-proof and provides solid insights and decisions. The integration of AI and Blockchain affects many aspects from food supply chain logistics and healthcare record sharing to media royalties and financial security. It is imperative that regulatory standards are emphasized in order to support positive outcomes from the integration...
Little Book of Restorative Justice for Colleges & Universities: Revised & Updated
by David R. Karp
Essential information for educators on the principles of restorative justice, starting a program, facilitating training, best practices, and much more. Here's a call to colleges and universities to consider implementing restorative practices on their campuses, ensuring fair treatment of students and staff while minimizing institutional liability, protecting the campus community, and boosting morale. From an associate dean of student affairs who has put these models to work on his campus. Resto...
This newly revised edition is an up-to-date and concise volume, clarifying the Building Acts and Regulations relating to houses, flats and maisonettes, for all construction professionals and students. Each chapter forms a self-contained unit covering all the regulation requirements applicable to a particular part of a building, dealing with each part in turn. With this single volume, professionals can ensure that all regulations are fully covered in respect of houses, flats and maisonettes. Inc...
Introduction to Cybercrime (Praeger Security International)
by Joshua B. Hill and Nancy E Marion
Explaining cybercrime in a highly networked world, this book provides a comprehensive yet accessible summary of the history, modern developments, and efforts to combat cybercrime in various forms at all levels of government—international, national, state, and local. As the exponential growth of the Internet has made the exchange and storage of information quick and inexpensive, the incidence of cyber-enabled criminal activity—from copyright infringement to phishing to online pornography—has als...
The Global Internet Law Hornbook provides law students, practitioners, judges, and policymakers with a comprehensive examination of the latest case law and statutory developments. Each chapter is a detailed examination of cases, statutes, industry standards, norms, as well as leading academic commentaries. While the emphasis is on U.S. developments, each chapter compares U.S. to EU regulations, directives, and conventions, as well as other cross-border Internet law developments from diverse lega...
Die europaische Datenschutz-Grundverordnung und das reformierte BDSG. Das neue Datenschutzrecht aus Unternehmenssicht
by Cagatay Bilgic
Unterschiedliche Auffassungen von Privatsphare und Datenschutz in unterschiedlichen Kulturen
by Nadja Tisserand
Following the introduction of the uniform business rate in 1990, local property taxation changed dramatically, whilst retaining many of its historical and familiar characteristics. Rating Law and Valuation details the existing, non-domestic rating system from the principles of rate liability and the definition of hereditament, the rateable value, to the procedure for compiling and altering the rating lists.The book also discusses how the methods of valuation are used by rating valuers to produce...
The bloody conflicts of the past decade have focused international attention on the strategic role of the media in promoting war and perpetuating chaos. Written against this backdrop, Forging Peace brings together case studies and legal analysis of the steps that the United Nations, NATO, and other organizations have taken to build pluralist and independent media in the wake of massive human rights violations. It examines current thinking on the legality of unilateral humanitarian intervention,...
Codifying Cyberspace
by Damian Tambini, Danilo Leonardi, and Chris Marsden
Can the Internet regulate itself? Faced with a range of 'harms' and conflicts associated with the new media – from gambling to pornography – many governments have resisted the temptation to regulate, opting instead to encourage media providers to develop codes of conduct and technical measures to regulate themselves. Codifying Cyberspace looks at media self-regulation in practice, in a variety of countries. It also examines the problems of balancing private censorship against fundamental right...
Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Digital Technologies
by Tanya Aplin
This Research Handbook provides a scholarly and comprehensive account of the multiple converging challenges that digital technologies present for intellectual property (IP) rights, from the perspectives of international, EU and US law. Despite the fast-moving nature of digital technology, this Handbook provides profound reflections on the underlying normative legal dilemmas, identifying future problems and suggesting how digital IP issues should be dealt with in the future. Written by leading...
The Analysis of Legal Cases (Law, Language and Communication)
by Flora Di Donato
This book examines the roles played by narrative and culture in the construction of legal cases and their resolution. It is articulated in two parts. Part I recalls epistemological turns in legal thinking as it moves from theory to practice in order to show how facts are constructed within the legal process. By combining interdisciplinary paradigms and methods, the work analyses the evolution of facts from their expression by the client to their translation within the lawyer-client relationship...
Global Telecommunications Market Access (Artech House communications law & policy library)
by Jennifer A Manner
This work offers professionals and students an understanding of the regulatory, economic, business, and public policy considerations associated with entry into global telecommunications markets from a commercial governmental and legal perspective. The primary focus of this work is on the regulatory environment, and how it impacts market access strategies and implementation of these strategies. The text addresses the issue of how to structure a venture so that it can operate within differing regu...
Internet Governance
The question of governance of the Internet is increasing in significance. The United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society, held in two phases in 2003 and 2005, provoked heated debate, and the resultant meetings of the Internet Governance Forum that followed this have been the subject of growing public and media interest. Yet governance of the Internet is multifaceted, complex, and far from transparent, and there has been little written about the subject which is detailed, systematic,...
The issues that arise in international project finance transcend those directly related to finance and reach matters involving environmental concerns, corporate and director liability, taxation, and investment incentives. Here, practitioners from Europe, North and South America, Asia, and the Pacific examine the full range of project finance issues and provide practical solutions to the problems arising in complex international transactions.
Your Digital Afterlife (Voices That Matter)
by Evan Carroll and John Romano
Almost without realizing it, we have shifted toward an all-digital culture. Future heirlooms like family photos, home movies, and personal letters now exist only in digital form, and in many cases they are stored using popular services like Flickr, YouTube, and Gmail. These digital possessions form a rich collection that chronicles our lives and connects us to each other. But have you considered what will happen to your treasured digital possessions when you die? Unfortunately the answer isn’t...
Rapid developments in technology are reshaping how citizens receive and use information electronically. At the same time, government regulation limits the services that may be offered by the industries that transmit information, and will determine how interactive and other advanced video services are able to develop. In this book, Richard Klingler traces the evolution of regulatory regimes that constrain the broadcasting, telephone, and cable television industries, as well as emerging informatio...