This article examines the effect that cultural and technological changes have had on interpersonal communication and aims to provide an interdisciplinary explanation for the recent proliferation of defamation in electronic media. The authors argue that the absence of certain extra-linguistic cues and established cultural convention in the electronic environment often results in miscommunication which — if not itself defamatory — gives rise to emotional exchanges between interlocutors in a manner that provokes defamation. The authors begin their analysis with a discussion of defamation law as a recipient-oriented tort, demonstrating the importance of the context of communication in the determination of whether a particular remark carries a d...
Recent technological developments allow Internet users to disseminate ideas to a large audience. The...
For many decades, defamation law in England in Wales has predominantly only had to deal with materia...
This Comment will first survey the law of cybersmear, illustrating the paradigmatic issues and legal...
With the integration of technology into society computer mediated discourse (CMD) has become a stand...
With the Internet, quickly becoming ubiquitous, the question arises: how does the Internet, and more...
Deposited with permission of the author © 1999 Dr. Matthew CollinsThe Internet is a unique and revol...
This vast use of the Internet changes the scope of harm associated with defamation. Communications o...
Moreover, “the logic of defamation creates a tangled web” involving at least the plaintiff, the defe...
This article presents the results of the study — discrediting cyberbullying in the polylogues of ne...
Millions of people worldwide use online services to communicate via e-mail; to post and read message...
In the past decade or so, internet libel has become one of the hot topics in internet law. Internati...
In this article, we introduce the Special Section on Extreme Speech and Global Digital Cultures by d...
This paper presents the key findings of a major empirical investigation into defamation law and soci...
According to the Communications Decency Act of 1996, a provider of an interactive computer service c...
Given the broad meaning of publication in defamation law, internet intermediaries such as internet s...
Recent technological developments allow Internet users to disseminate ideas to a large audience. The...
For many decades, defamation law in England in Wales has predominantly only had to deal with materia...
This Comment will first survey the law of cybersmear, illustrating the paradigmatic issues and legal...
With the integration of technology into society computer mediated discourse (CMD) has become a stand...
With the Internet, quickly becoming ubiquitous, the question arises: how does the Internet, and more...
Deposited with permission of the author © 1999 Dr. Matthew CollinsThe Internet is a unique and revol...
This vast use of the Internet changes the scope of harm associated with defamation. Communications o...
Moreover, “the logic of defamation creates a tangled web” involving at least the plaintiff, the defe...
This article presents the results of the study — discrediting cyberbullying in the polylogues of ne...
Millions of people worldwide use online services to communicate via e-mail; to post and read message...
In the past decade or so, internet libel has become one of the hot topics in internet law. Internati...
In this article, we introduce the Special Section on Extreme Speech and Global Digital Cultures by d...
This paper presents the key findings of a major empirical investigation into defamation law and soci...
According to the Communications Decency Act of 1996, a provider of an interactive computer service c...
Given the broad meaning of publication in defamation law, internet intermediaries such as internet s...
Recent technological developments allow Internet users to disseminate ideas to a large audience. The...
For many decades, defamation law in England in Wales has predominantly only had to deal with materia...
This Comment will first survey the law of cybersmear, illustrating the paradigmatic issues and legal...