Media and society after technological disruption / editd by Kyle Langvardt, University of Nebraska, Gus Hurwitz, University of Nebraska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Langvardt, Kyle, editor.

Hurwitz, Justin (Gus), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social media--Law and legislation.

Social media.

Internet--Law and legislation.

Internet.

Mass media--Technological innovations--Law and legislation.

Mass media.

Digital media--Law and legislation.

Digital media.

Online social networks--Law and legislation.

Online social networks.

Online information services industry--Law and legislation.

Online information services industry.

Privacy, Right of.

Libel and slander.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"This interdisciplinary collection studies the Internet's effects on traditional media. Part 1 deals with the breakdown of trust in the media; Part 2 outlines the changing law of defamation and privacy; Part 3 analyzes the challenge of online content moderation; and Part 4 considers the financial challenges facing journalistic enterprises"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Imprints page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Trusted Communicators

Part II: Defamation and Privacy

Part III: Platform Governance

Part IV: Sustaining Journalistic Institutions

Part I Trusted Communicators

1 Introduction: Trusted Communicators

2 Getting to Trustworthiness (but Not Necessarily to Trust)

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Encouraging Trustworthy Media Behavior through Alternate Financing and Business Models

2.3 Demonstrating Trustworthy Media Behavior through Norms and Design

2.4 Encouraging Trustworthy Behavior through Law

2.5 Conclusion

3 Sober and Self-Guided Newsgathering

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Proliferation of True-but-Misleading News

3.3 More Access to True-but-Misleading News in the Internet Age

3.4 A New Human Experience: Every Bad Thing All at Once

3.5 Predictions and Solutions (Grade Me in 200 Years, Please)

3.6 Tools for Sober, Self-Guided Newsgathering

3.7 Data Repositories and Digital Almanacs: An Infrastructure for Sober and Self-Guided Newsgathering

3.8 If You Build It, Will Anyone Come?

3.9 Conclusion

4 The New Gatekeepers?: Social Media and the ''Search for Truth''

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The Old Gatekeepers

4.3 The Collapse of the Old Gatekeepers

4.4 The New Gatekeepers?

4.5 Conclusion

5 Beyond the Watchdog: Using Law to Build Trust in the Press

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Trust, the Watchdog Press, and the Supreme Court: A Very Brief History

5.3 Trust, and the Press as Facilitator of Deliberation in Public Squares

5.4 The Role for Law in Press Trust-Building

5.5 Conclusion

Part II Defamation and Privacy

6 Defamation and Privacy: What You Can't Say about Me

7 Cheap Speech and the Gordian Knot of Defamation Reform

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Defamation Law Reform: 1977-Present

7.3 Defamation Law's New Critics

7.4 Defamation's Scorecard

7.5 First Do No Harm

7.6 A Prescription for Reform

8 Defamation, Disinformation, and the Press Function

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The Sullivan Doctrine

8.3 Justice Gorsuch's Critique

8.4 A Poor Tool for the Crisis

8.5 Preserving the Press Function

9 Privacy Rights, Internet Mug Shots, and a Right to Be Forgotten

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Two Shifts in Law Regarding Mug-Shot Privacy

9.3 A Shift in Journalism Too

9.4 The Future of Mug Shots and Other Online Criminal Arrest Information

9.5 Conclusion

10 Brokered Abuse

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Data Brokers as Information Traffickers

10.3 The Law's Role in Brokered Abuse

10.4 The Harms of Brokered Abuse

10.5 Conclusion

Part III Platform Governance

11 Introduction: Platform Governance

12 Noisy Speech Externalities

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Information Theory, Channel Capacity, and the Signal-to-Noise Ratio

12.3 Externalities and Speech Regulation

12.4 Preliminaries of Addressing Noisy Speech Externalities

12.5 How We Should Regulate Noisy Speech Externalities

12.6 Conclusion

13 Content Moderation in Practice

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Facebook

13.3 YouTube

13.4 TikTok

13.5 Reddit

13.6 Zoom

13.7 Differences in Content-Moderation Policy

13.8 Differences in Content-Moderation Enforcement Rules

13.9 Differences in Content-Moderation Enforcement Implementation and Transparency

13.10 Conclusion

14 The Reverse Spider-Man Principle: With Great Responsibility Comes Great Power

14.1 Introduction

14.2 The Virtues of Irresponsibility

14.3 Practical Limits on Private Companies' Power, in the Absence of Responsibility

14.4 The Internet of Things, Constant Customer/Seller Interaction for Tangible Products, and the Future of Responsibility

14.5 Big Data and the Future of Responsibility

14.6 Conclusion

15 Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Closed Platforms and Decentralized Alternatives

15.3 Content Moderation on the Fediverse

15.4 Encouraging the Fediverse

Part IV Sustaining Journalistic Institutions

16 Introduction: Sustaining Journalistic Institutions

17 How Local TV News Is Surviving Disruption as Newspapers Fail: Lessons Learned

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Surviving Disruption

17.3 Understanding Local Television News Success

17.4 Discussion

17.5 Conclusion

18 From Hot News to Link Tax: The Dangers of a Quasi-Property Right in Information

18.1 Introduction

18.2 Who Should Pay and How?

18.3 Made in America

18.4 Enclosure of an Informational Commons

18.5 Wreck-It Rupert Breaks the Internet

18.6 Pass Go and Collect 200

18.7 ''Advertising Only Is Dead''

18.8 Concentrate, Consolidate

18.9 ''Property Rights Talk''

18.10 Censorship and Consensus

18.11 Friend or Foe?

19 Structuring a Subsidy for Local Journalism

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Public Media and Subsidized Private Media

19.3 Concerns about Constitutionality and State Capture

19.4 Limited Options

19.5 Designing a Subsidy

20 Saving the News

20.1 Introduction

20.2 Newspapers' Challenges

20.3 Newspapers' Inadequate Response

20.4 Postage and Ad Caps as Alternatives

20.5 Conclusion

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 May 2024).

ISBN:

9781009184816

1009184814

9781009184779

1009184776

9781009174411

100917441X

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access