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Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism

Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism

Author: Peter Coe
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781800371255
Published In: December 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This timely book explores how the internet and social media have permanently altered the media landscape, enabling new actors to enter the marketplace and changing the way that news is generated, published and consumed. It examines the importance of citizen journalists, whose newsgathering and publication activities have made them crucial to public discourse and central actors in the communication revolution. Investigating how the internet and social media have enabled citizen journalism to flourish, and what this means for the traditional institutional press, the public sphere, and media freedom, the book demonstrates how communication and legal theory are applied in practice.

Peter Coe advances a concept of ‘media as a constitutional component’, which distinguishes media from non-media actors based on the functions they perform, rather than institutional status, and uses this to provide a conceptual framework that recognises modern newsgathering and publication methods. This interdisciplinary book analyses the legal challenges created across a range of topical issues, including online anonymity and pseudonymity, defamation, privacy and public interest, contempt of court and press regulation.

Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism will be a key resource for students, scholars, practitioners and policy-makers of information and media law, constitutional administrative law, communication and media studies, journalism and philosophy.

1. Introduction

PART I. THE MODERN MEDIA LANDSCAPE

2. A shackled institution: is the notion of the ‘free press’ a fallacy?

3. The internet, social media, and citizen journalism

PART II. THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS

4. Unpacking media freedom as a distinct legal concept

5. The media-as-a-constitutional-component concept: a new theoretical foundation for media freedom

6. What the media-as-a-constitutional-component concept means for media freedom

PART III. LEGAL CHALLENGES

7. Anonymous and pseudonymous speech

8. Contempt of court and defamation

9. Reimaging regulation