Vai al contenuto principale della pagina
Autore: |
Mhiripiri Nhamo A.
![]() |
Titolo: |
Media law, ethics, and policy in the digital age / / Nhamo A. Mhiripiri, Tendai Chari [editors]
![]() |
Pubblicazione: | Hershey, PA : , : Information Science Reference, , [2017] |
�2017 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxii, 330 pages) : color illustrations |
Disciplina: | 175 |
Soggetto topico: | Mass media - Law and legislation |
Mass media - Moral and ethical aspects | |
Mass media policy | |
Soggetto non controllato: | Cybercrime |
Freedom of information | |
Invasion of privacy | |
Media ownership policy | |
Media regulatory models | |
Muckraking | |
User generated content | |
Persona (resp. second.): | MhiripiriNhamo A. |
ChariTendai | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Criminal defamation, the criminalisation of expression, media and information dissemination in the digital age: a legal and ethical perspective / Nhamo A. Mhiripiri, Jacqueline Chikakano -- Ethical pitfalls in the digital age: when the desire to "serve hot" gets in the way of verification / Tendai Chari -- To lie or not to lie: interrogating codes of conduct on photo ethics in the era of digital technologies / Bevelyn Dube -- Media-invented stories and outright lies a threat to journalism ethics and media credibility / Agnes Lucy Lando -- Ethical and legal challenges of election reporting in Nigeria: a study of four general elections, 1999-2011 / Tayo Popoola -- Copying, branding, and the ethical implications of rights in immaterial cultural goods / Ute M. Röschenthaler -- Intellectual property rights and the protection of Africa's traditional knowledge / Benjamin Enahoro Assay -- Overcoming the legal challenges of news reporting: a case study of a start-up news corporation / Jonathan Bishop -- Electoral polling and reporting in Africa: professional and policy implications for media practice and political communication in a digital age / Adebayo Fayoyin -- Digital media in Uganda: where regulation and freedom of expression contradictions are sharpest / Brian Semujju -- Citizen journalism on Facebook and the challenges of media regulation in Zimbabwe: Baba Jukwa / Collen Sabao, Vimbai Rejoice Chingwaramusee -- |
Naming crime suspects in the news: "seek truth and report it" vs. "minimizing harm" / Robin Blom -- Boko Haram insurgency in Cameroon: role of mass media in conflict management / Afu Isaiah Kunock -- Deferring citizens' "right to know" in an information age: the information deficit in Namibia / William Edward Heuva -- Rethinking information privacy in a "connected" world / Ufuoma Akpojivi. | |
Sommario/riassunto: | "This book examines challenges, opportunities, issues, controversies and contradictions of digital technologies in relation to media law and ethics and how they play out in different socio-political and economic realities. Its aim is to critically interrogate issues, controversies, challenges and opportunities that digital technologies bring to bear on media and communications"--Provided by publisher. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Media law, ethics, and policy in the digital age ![]() |
ISBN: | 9781522520962 |
9781522520955 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910159445503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |