Media Laws Across the World

Download or read book Media Laws Across the World written by Junhao Hong and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong and Su compare the evolution of media laws across the world, focusing on representative countries in North America, Western Europe and Asia and analyzes the political, economic, cultural and societal reasons for the evolution. In addition, their work also examines the challenges facing media laws in the new era of globalization and informatization. Moreover, the authors cover issues that are related to many newly emerged legal aspects such digital media law issues, libel law issues, copyright issues, and cyber-privacy issues. This book should be a very helpful tool not only for the readers in communication/media studies and legal studies, but also for those in political science and sociology. In addition, legal practitioners in media law may also be quite interested.