Mangan, David; Gillies, E. Lorna --- "The Legal Challenges of Social Media" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) [2017] ELECD 855

Editor(s): Mangan, David; Gillies, E. Lorna

Title: The Legal Challenges of Social Media

Series: Elgar Law, Technology and Society series

Topics: Human Rights; Information and Media Law; International Commercial Law; Internet and Technology Law; Law and Society; Law of Obligations; Private International Law

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 30 June 2017

Number of pages: c 352

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785364501

EISBN: 9781785364518

Abstract/Description:

Social media offers a platform for individual self-expression and the sharing of information. However, social media issues are boundless, permeating distinct legal disciplines. The law has struggled to adapt and for good reason: how does the law regulate this medium over the public/private law divide? This book engages with the legal implications of social media from both public and private law perspectives and outlines how the law has endeavoured to adapt the existing tools to social media.

The expert contributors explore a range of ideas to investigate the intersection between law and social media and they provide an insight into the challenges the legal community currently face. This collection explores key topics such as public and private law implications, the gap between the lay and legal understandings of social media, the conflict of laws regarding social media and the individual rights associated with social media.

This timely study of a complex and ever-changing area of law will be of interest to legal scholars, students and practitioners and will provide a valuable source of reference for those studying or researching media and journalism.