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The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is a landmark in the defense of free speech against government interference and suppression. In this book we come to see how it also acts as a smokescreen behind which a more dangerous and insidious threat to free speech can operate. Soley shows how as corporate power has grown and come to influence the issues on which ordinary Americans should be able to speak out, so new strategies have developed to restrict free speech on issues in which corporatio...

This comprehensive textbook provides a thoughtful introduction to both the legal and ethical considerations relevant to students pursuing careers in communication and media. The fully revised, sixth edition continues to integrate fundamental legal and ethical principles with cases and examples from both landmark moments and recent history. It expands upon the previous edition's exploration of international and non-U.S. law, introduces a new chapter on digital and social media, and incorporates...

This book explores the phenomenon of data – big and small – in the contemporary digital, informatic and legal-bureaucratic context. Challenging the way in which legal interest in data has focused on rights and privacy concerns, this book examines the contestable, multivocal and multifaceted figure of the contemporary data subject. The book analyses "data" and "personal data" as contemporary phenomena, addressing the data realms, such as stores, institutions, systems and networks, out of which...

Patenschriften sind durch ihre juristische Pragung fur Techniker teilweise schwer verstandlich. Dem Leser wird gezeigt wie er Patente lesen sollte, um sie besser zu verstehen. Er erfahrt nach welcher Methode die Prufung einer Patentschrift erfolgt, wie Patentschriften gegliedert sind, wie die Verfahrensschritte beim DPMA sind, was der INID-Code besagt, was das Deckblatt eines Patentdokuments verrat, wie die Ablage von Patenten bei den Patentamtern strukturiert ist. Der Autor erklart alle wichtig...

A new study on the social dimension of creativity examines the destruction of the larger public domain of ideas, assessing the creative and innovative repercussions of America's long terms of copyright, as well as the impact of new technologies, big media, and cultural monopolies on our freedom to create, construct, and imagine. 35,000 first printi

Webcasting Worldwide tackles one of the most timely topics in mass communication today-the delivery of audio and video content via the Web, or webcasting-employing a global perspective to explore the subject. It is unique in providing a theoretical framework by which to analyze business models of emerging media, and it also examines the business practices of leading webcasters in the world's most developed broadband markets. With webcasting in its early development, the approaches discussed in t...

This volume considers how media firms, as well as entire industries, exist and persist over time despite what often seems to be intense competition for such resources as audiences and advertisers. Addressing competition within and among media organizations and industries, including broadcasting, cable, and the Internet, author John W. Dimmick studies the media industries through the niche theory lens, developed by bioecologists to explain competition and coexistence. He examines the targets of t...

The first book to consider the rapid rise of makeover shows from the perspectives of their viewers Watch this show, buy this product, you can be a whole new you! Makeover television shows repeatedly promise self-renewal and the opportunity for reinvention, but what do we know about the people who watch them? As it turns out, surprisingly little. The Makeover is the first book to consider the rapid rise of makeover shows from the perspectives of their viewers. Katherine Sender argues that this ge...

Buying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple—to fight AIDS. Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. All these commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporary culture: the most common way we participate in social activism is by buying something. Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser have gathered an exemplary group of scholars to explore this new landscape through a seri...

The term Occupy represents a belief in the transformation of the capitalist system through a new heterogenic world of protest and activism that cannot be conceived in terms of liberal democracy, parliamentary systems, class war or vanguard politics. These conceptualisations do not articulate where power is held, nor from where transformation may issue. This collection of essays by world-leading scholars of Deleuze and Guattari examines how capitalism can be understood as a global abstract machin...

Discusses the relevant mass media legal decisions, from the Constitution to the Supreme Court sessions, in relation to their relevance to modern American law. This book also examines the issues that are shaping the United States' legal system, from the Internet to the political advertising laws.

Equal parts courtroom drama, intellectual journey, and character study, Chilling Effect is Marianne Wesson's most provocative Lucinda Hayes mystery to date.When attorney Lucinda Hayes reluctantly agrees to represent the mother of a brutally slain child, she must convince the court that the makers of a pornographic film are liable for the murder. As the case unfolds, Lucinda calls upon all her personal strength and legal talent, facing down her own ghosts as well as the powerful entertainment ind...

Renowned for its unique visual style, Homicide: Life on the Street fundamentally changed the police procedural genre. The show broke records, featured memorable characters, and launched careers--most notably that of David Simon, whose own nonfiction book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, inspired the series, and who went on to create both The Wire and Treme. Homicide was an anomaly in the 1990s for its honest and open portrayals and discussions of race, and in this TV Milestone, Lisa Dor...

This study is based on the authors' fieldwork inside Cultural Enterprise Office, a small Scottish agency that supports creative businesses. It discusses UK policy on the creative economy, the rise of intermediaries between policy-making and the marketplace, and the playing out in the delivery of business advice services to creative microbusinesses.

Unternehmen benoetigen das Wissen der Mitarbeiter, um Prozesse entlang der Produktentstehungs- und Wertschoepfungskette, in der Projektarbeit und Vereinbarungen mit Partnern, Zulieferern und Kunden konstruktiv nutzen zu koennen. Kundenbedurfnisse gilt es strukturiert festzuhalten und fruhzeitig in den Prozess zu integrieren. Durch ein organisiertes Wissensmanagement koennen nicht nur langfristig kurzere Produktlebenszyklen, die Wissensintensitat und die Aktualitat des Wissens gesteigert und ziel...

This timely new study provides a systematic, comparative, and comprehensive view of literature s involvement in the obscenity question.The year 1890 roughly marks the beginning of a sexual revolution in the fiction published in the United States. Today, the gains realized generally are regarded as beneficial, and the right of writers to express themselves and, perhaps more importantly, " "the right of people to read, usually are taken for granted, though they are not without peril, as recent Cou...

Nach der Etablierung des Internet als Medium f r private und gesch ftliche Kommunikation werden auch die Rechtsfragen, die sich bei der Nutzung stellen, in ihrer Bandbreite sichtbar und besch ftigen auch immer st rker Rechtsprechung und Literatur. Das von den Mitarbeitern der Abteilung f r Informations- und Immaterialg terrecht des Instituts f r B rgerliches Recht, Handels- und Wertpapierrecht der Wirtschaftsuniversit t Wien erstellte Skript behandelt die wichtigsten Rechtsfragen der Internetnut...

This book delivers an original, theoretically informed analysis of the legal regulation of online speech. Rejecting the narrow pluralism of elitist and deliberative accounts of the citizen's role in political discourse, the book defends a participatory account of speech in non-deliberative settings. The latter account of political pluralism best captures the republican democratic aspiration for popular, on-going authorship of the laws and the centrality of freedom to dissent in democratic theory...

Justice apps – mobile and web-based programmes that can assist individuals with legal tasks – are being produced, improved, and accessed at an unprecedented rate. These technologies have the potential to reshape the justice system, improve access to justice, and demystify legal institutions. Using artificial intelligence techniques, apps can even facilitate the resolution of common legal disputes. However, these opportunities must be assessed in light of the many challenges associated with app...