Description:
Featuring specially commissioned chapters from experts in the field of media and communications law this book provides an authoritative survey of media law from a comparative perspective.
The handbook will not simply offer a synopsis of the state of affairs in media law jurisprudence. Rather it will provide a better understanding of the forces that generate media rules, norms, and standards, perpetuate them, and foster change in them against the background of major transformations in the way information is mediated as a result of democratization, economic development, cultural change, globalization and technological innovation.
Review Quotes:
'In our digital age, understanding the landscape of media law is essential not just to legal experts, but to companies, policy makers, and the public at large. This is simply the best book on the market; informed, rich, elucidating and full of insights. Highly recommended!' Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, University of Oxford, UK
'Media law is a key aspect of the fast increasing role of the media in our ever more interconnected world. Understanding the rapidly evolving legal frameworks that govern the media across the globe is vital. Researchers, policymakers, and activists alike could not wish for a better resource than the Routledge Handbook of Media Law. Its first-rate contributors provide a comprehensive and authoritative tour d´horizon of a fascinating field. The comparative and multi-disciplinary perspective is thoroughly compelling and enables us to understand how media law, society and politics constitute each other.' Wolfgang Reinicke, Founding Dean, School of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest and President, Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin
'The editors of the Routledge Handbook of Media Law have sold themselves short by marketing their work as a mere "handbook." More compendium than synopsis, the work offers thirty treatises and research papers on global media law and policy from a comparative and socio-legal perspective.' Arthur S. Hayes, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, USA for Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly