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Media law, ethics, and policy in the digital age

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Media law, ethics, and policy in the digital age/ Nhamo A. Mhiripiri and Tendai Chari, editors.
other author:	Mhiripiri, Nhamo A.,
Published:	Hershey, Pennsylvania :IGI Global, : [2017],
Description:	1 online resource (330 p.).
Subject:	Mass media - Moral and ethical aspects. -
Online resource:	http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-5225-2095-5
ISBN:	9781522520962 (ebk.)

Media law, ethics, and policy in the digital age
Media law, ethics, and policy in the digital age[electronic resource] /Nhamo A. Mhiripiri and Tendai Chari, editors. - Hershey, Pennsylvania :IGI Global,[2017] - 1 online resource (330 p.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. Roschenthaler -- 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 --

Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

"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.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9781522520962 (ebk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

584325
Mass media
--Moral and ethical aspects.Subjects--Index Terms:

Cybercrime

LC Class. No.: P94 / .M43 2017e

Dewey Class. No.: 175

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505 8 $a 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.
506 $a Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520 3 $a "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.
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653 $a Media ownership policy
653 $a Media regulatory models
653 $a Muckraking
653 $a User generated content
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