3rd Edition

Social Media and the Law A Guidebook for Communication Students and Professionals

Edited By Daxton R. Stewart Copyright 2023
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

This fully updated third edition of Social Media and the Law offers an essential guide to navigating the complex legal terrain of social media. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok have become vital tools for professionals in the news and strategic communication fields. As these services have rapidly grown in popularity, their legal ramifications have... Read more

Preface

Daxton R. "Chip" Stewart

1. Free Speech in Social Media

Jennifer Jacobs Henderson

2. Defamation

Derigan Silver

3. Privacy, Surveillance, and Data Protection

Amy Kristin Sanders

4. Intellectual Property

Kathleen K. Olson

5. Commercial Speech in a Social Space

Courtney Barclay

6. Account Ownership and Control

Jasmine McNealy

7. Student Speech

Dan V. Kozlowski

8. Obscenity, Revenge Pornography, and Cyberbullying

Adedayo L. Abah & Amy Kristin Sanders

9. Social Media Use in Courtrooms

Brooks Fuller

10. Social Media Policies for Journalists

Daxton R. Stewart

11. Social Media Policies for Advertising and Public Relations

Holly Kathleen Hall

12. The Future of Discourse in Online Spaces

Jared Schroeder

Biography

Daxton "Chip" R. Stewart is an attorney and professor at Texas Christian University, where he teaches courses in journalism and media law. He has more than 15 years of professional experience in news media and public relations. Along with editing Social Media and the Law, he is the author of Media Law Through Science Fiction: Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech? and co-author of the textbook The Law of Public Communication.