Privacy in the New Media Age - Hardcover

Mills, Jon L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813060583 ISBN 13: 9780813060583

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2015

Synopsis

Balancing personal dignity and first amendment concerns has become increasingly challenging in the new media age, when, for example, bloggers have no editors and perhaps no moral restraints. Unlimited and unrestricted internet speech has left thousands of victims in its wake, most of them silenced after the media cycle moves on. While the history of free speech and press has noble origins rooted in democratic theory, can society protect those who are harassed, stalked, and misrepresented online while maintaining a free society?

Jon Mills, one of the nation's top provacy experts and advocates, maps out this complex problem. He discuses the need for forethought and creative remedies, looking at solutions already implemented by the European Union and comparing them to the antiquated provacy laws still extant in the United States. In his search for solutions, Mills closely examines an array of cases, some of them immediately recognizable beacuse of their notoriety and extensive media coverage. In a context of almost instantaneous global communications, where technology moves faster than the law, Mills traces the sharp edge between freedom of expression and the individual dignity that privacy preseves.

About this title

About the Author

Jon L. Mills is professor of law at the University of Florida, USA former dean of the Levin College of Law, and a former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. His specialtes are privacy and constitutional law, about which he has litigated high-profile cases. He is author of Privacy: The Lost Right.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813060583
• ISBN 13: 9780813060583
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256