Social media in legal practice. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Vijay Bhatia, Girolamo Tessuto.
• Editors: Bhatia, V. K (Vijay Kumar), 1942-; Tessuto, Girolamo
• Contents: Introduction; VIJAY K. BHATIA AND GIROLAMO TESSUTO; SECTION 1: SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE LEGAL COMMUNITY; Environmental justice or ‘government overreach’: the rhetorical landscape of the Gibson guitar factory raids; ROY CARPENTER; Trial by (social) media: Anglo-Saxon and Italian practises in the digital age; DOUGLAS PONTON AND MARCO CANEPA; Legally dead, illegally frozen? The legal aspects of cryonics as discursively constructed online by providers and the media; KIM GREGO; The fuzzy line between media and judicial discourse: insights from the Pinto-López Madrid Case; GIANLUCA PONTRANDOLFO; Ideological positioning in Amnesty International human rights web-based documents; GERALD DELAHUNTY; Argumentation and video evidence in a legal context: an interdisciplinary case study from Brazilian military justice; ANDRE LAZARO, VICENTE RICCIO and AMITZA TORRES VIEIRA; SECTION 2: SOCIAL MEDIA FOR CLIENT EMPOWERMENT; The discursive construction of Hong Kong’s Civic Square in the media: contesting social and legal perspectives; ADITI BHATIA; Finding a way forward: a discourse analysis of the online popularisation of restorative justice in the United Kingdom; ANTONELLA NAPOLITANO; Helping Aussie women online: a discourse analysis of the Australian e-safety commissioner website; CARMINA MEOLA; Discursive illusions and manipulations in legal blogs on medically assisted procreation: Parrillo v. Italy Case; JEKATARINA NIKITINA; Jag 2.0: legal advice and dissemination in online military lawyer forums; ROXANNE BARBARA DOERR; The web-mediated construction of interdiscursive truth(s) about the MMR vaccine: a defamation case; ANNA FRANCA PLASTINA and ROSITA BELINDA MAGLIE; SECTION 3: CHALLENGES AND WAY FORWARD; The toxic proliferation of lies and fake news in the world of social media: is it time for the law to "unfriend" Facebook?; JANET AINSWORTH; ‘Fake news’ as interdiscursive illusion: a challenge to law, social media, and free speech; VIJAY K BHATIA; Information and communication technology in alternative dispute resolution: is it facilitative or disruptive?; RAJESH SHARMA;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 302.23102434; Internet in legal services; Social media -- Influence; Disinformation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000166354; 9781000166255; 9781000166309; 9780429346088
• Related ISBNs: 9780367347727
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