New Media, Old Regimes: Case Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy (Lexington Studies in Political Communication)

New 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. Eko’s 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, the problem of managing pedopornography in cyberspace and real space, and other current communication policy cases. This study will aid readers not only to understand different national and cultural perspectives of thorny communication issues, but also show that though freedom of expression is a pluralistic concept, the actions of all political regimes at the national, transnational, and international levels must be held up to the universal standards of freedom of expression set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New Media, Old Regimes provides essential scholarship on comparative communication law and policy in a world of new media. Contents 7 Chapter One: Mapping the Terrain of Comparative and International Communication Law 9 Chapter Two: International Approaches to the Study of Comparative Communication Law and Policy: Regulatory Regimes and Policy Transfer 37 Chapter Three: Politico-Cultural Approaches to Comparative Communication Law and Policy: Exceptionalism, Mentalities, and Asymmetries 65 Chapter Four: The European Supranational Communication Law and Policy Regime 93 Chapter Five: Multilateral Resolution of Communication Problems: The International Communications Regulatory Regime 111 Chapter Six: New Media, Old Authoritarian Regimes: Instrumentalization of the Internet and Networked Social Media in the “Arab Spring” of 2011 in North Africa 137 Chapter Seven: Human Rights versus Religious Rites: The Mohammed Cartoons Affair and the Clash of Religious “Establish(mentalities)” in Denmark and France 169 Chapter Eight: New Technologies, Old Mentalities: The Internet, Minitel, and Exceptionalist Information and Communication Technology Policy 217 Chapter Nine: New Technologies, Old Governmentalities: Internet Surveillance in the United States and the Russian Federation 249 Chapter Ten: American Exceptionalism, the French Exception, and Harmonization of International Intellectual Property Law by the United States and France 287 Chapter Eleven: New Media, Old Mania: Regulation of Child Pornography Under International, European Union and American Jurisprudence 331 Chapter Twelve: New Realities, Old Ideologies: Communication Law, Legal Transfers and “Developmentality” in Africa 363 Chapter Thirteen: New Media, Ancient Animosities: “Propaganda of the Deed” and the Laws of War in the NATO/Yugoslav Conflict of 1999 387 Selected Bibliography 425 Index 435

New 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. Eko’s 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, the problem of managing pedopornography in cyberspace and real space, and other current communication policy cases.

This study will aid readers not only to understand different national and cultural perspectives of thorny communication issues, but also show that though freedom of expression is a pluralistic concept, the actions of all political regimes at the national, transnational, and international levels must be held up to the universal standards of freedom of expression set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New Media, Old Regimes provides essential scholarship on comparative communication law and policy in a world of new media.

New 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. Eko’s 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, the problem of managing pedopornography in cyberspace and real space, and other current communication policy cases. \ \ This study will aid readers not only to understand different national and cultural perspectives of thorny communication issues, but also show that though freedom of expression is a pluralistic concept, the actions of all political regimes at the national, transnational, and international levels must be held up to the universal standards of freedom of expression set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New Media, Old Regimes provides essential scholarship on comparative communication law and policy in a world of new media. \ Mapping the terrain of comparative communication law Systemic approaches to comparative communication law and policy -Regulatory regimes and policy transfer Politico-cultural approaches to comparative communication law and policy -exceptionalism, mentalities, and asymmetries The European supranational communication law and policy regime Multilateral resolution of communication problems -the international communications regulatory regime New media, old authoritarian regimes -instrumentalization of the internet and networked social media in the "Arab Spring" of 2011 in North Africa Old religions, old mentalities -the Mohammad cartoons affair as a clash of religious "establishmentalities" New technologies, old mentalities -the internet, the minitel and exceptionalist information and communication technology policy New technologies, old Big Brother -Internet surveillance and "governmentality" in the United States and the Russian Federation American exceptionalism, the French exception, and harmonization of intellectual property law by the United States and France New media, old images -re-presentation of the problem of online Child pornography under international, European & American law New realities, old ideologies -communication policy, transfers and "developmentality" in Africa New media, ancient animosities: "propaganda of the deed" and The laws of war in the NATO/Yugoslav War of 1999. New Media, Old Regimes is one of the most interesting and innovative studies of comparative communications law available. Eko's use of a case-study approach to reveal the tensions between different political and cultural systems and their differing concepts of freedom of expression is extremely effective and enlightening. -- Eric Easton, University of Baltimore This book offers both a contribution to the theoretical foundations of comparative communication law and policy and thought-provoking case studies that illustrate clashes between culturally specific interpretations of communication rights and obligations. -- Manuel Puppis, Univeristy of Zurich, Switzerland This is a fine book by an able media law scholar, whose research has informed me over the years, especially when I wanted to expand my "reverse perspective" on American law on freedom of speech and the press