New Media, Old Regimes by Lyombe S. Eko - 9780739192818

New Media, Old RegimesCase Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy\nAuthor(s): Lyombe S. Eko\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9780739192818, 978-0739192818\nSynopsis\nNew Media, Old Regimes: Case Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy, by Lyombe S. Eko, is a collection of novel theoretical perspectives and case studies which illustrate how different communication law regimes conceptualize and apply universal ideals of human rights and freedom of expression to media controversies in real space and cyberspace. Ekos investigation includes such controversial communication policy topics as North African regimes failed use of telecommunications to suppress the social change of the Arab Spring, the Mohammad cartoon controversy in Denmark and France, French and American policy of development and diffusion of the Minitel and the Internet, American and Russian regulation of internet surveillance.