Regulating Social Media

Susan J. Drucker (JD, St. John’s University School of Law) is a professor in the Department of Journalism/Media Studies at the School of Communication, Hofstra University. She is an attorney, and editor of the Communication Law series for Peter Lang. She is the author and coeditor of nine books including The Urban Communication Reader I and II, Voices in the Street: Gender, Media and Public Space, Regulating Convergence (2010) and two editions of Real Law @ Virtual Space: The Regulation of Cyberspace (1999, 2005) with Gary Gumpert. Her work examines the relationship between media technology and human factors, particularly as viewed from a legal perspective. Along with Gary Gumpert, she has received the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression. Gary Gumpert (PhD, Wayne State University) is Emeritus Professor of Communication at Queens College of the City University of New York and president of the Urban Communication Foundation. Professor Gumpert’s publications include Talking Tombstones and Other Tales of the Media Age and three edited volumes of Inter/Media: Interpersonal Communication in a Media Age. He is series editor of the Urban Communication series for Peter Lang. His primary research focuses on the nexus of communication technology and social relationships, particularly looking at urban and suburban development, the alteration of public space, and the changing nature of community. His work has been recognized with the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.

Contents: Susan J. Drucker/Gary Gumpert: Introduction: Thoughts on Social Media, Law, and Ethics – Star Muir: Privacy, Identity, and Public Engagement among Digital Natives – Dale A. Herbeck: Swimming in Cyber-Cesspools: Defamation Law in the Age of Social Media – Juliet Dee: Cyberharassment and Cyberbullying: «There Ought To Be a Law» – Mary Ann Allision/Eric Allision: Brains and Behavior: Addressing Amplified Adolescent Visibility in the Global Village – Adrienne Hacker-Daniels: Protection or Prosecution: Julian Assange and Wikileaks Making Waves with a Cybersplash – Warren Sandman: Revisiting the Right «To Be Let Alone» in the Age of Social Media – Douglas C. Strahler/Thomas R. Flynn: Transparency, Misrepresentation, and Social Media – Bruce E. Drushel: Digital Red Light Zones: Alternative Approach to Regulating Adult Online Social Media – Suzanne Berman: Social Media, Public Relations and Ethics – Kelly Fincham: Toward a New Code of Ethics: Social Media in Journalism.