Media law, ethics, and policy in the digital age / Nhamo A. Mhiripiri, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe & St. Augustine University, Tanzania, Tendai Chari, University of Venda, South Africa, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Advances in media, entertainment, and the arts (AMEA) book seriesPublisher: Hershey PA : IGI Global, [2017]Description: xxii, 330 pages ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781522520955 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23/1 23
LOC classification:
  • K4240  MED 2017
Contents:
Criminal defamation, the criminalisation of expression, Media and information dissemination in the digital age : a legal and ethical perspective / Nhamo A. Mhiripiri, Jacqueline Chikakano -- Ethjical pitfalls in the digital age : when the disire 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, Ogwashi-Uku -- 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 contraditions are sharpest / Brian Semujju -- Citizen journalism on facebook and the challenges of media regulation in Zimbabwe : Baba Jukwa / Collen Sabao -- 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 Isaish Kunock -- Deferring citizens' "Right to Know" in an information age : the innformation deficit in Namibia / William Edward Heuva -- Rethinking information privacy in a "Connected" World / Ufuma Akpojivi.
Summary: "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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Criminal defamation, the criminalisation of expression, Media and information dissemination in the digital age : a legal and ethical perspective / Nhamo A. Mhiripiri, Jacqueline Chikakano -- Ethjical pitfalls in the digital age : when the disire 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, Ogwashi-Uku -- 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 contraditions are sharpest / Brian Semujju -- Citizen journalism on facebook and the challenges of media regulation in Zimbabwe : Baba Jukwa / Collen Sabao -- 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 Isaish Kunock -- Deferring citizens' "Right to Know" in an information age : the innformation deficit in Namibia / William Edward Heuva -- Rethinking information privacy in a "Connected" World / Ufuma Akpojivi.

"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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