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Social Media in Legal Practice.

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Main Author: Bhatia, Vijay
Other Authors: Tessuto, Girolamo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Subjects:
Social media > Law and legislation.
Social media > Influence.
Internet in legal services.
Disinformation.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781000166255
1000166252
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction
  • Section 1 Social media and the legal community
  • Section 2 Social media for client empowerment
  • Section 3 Challenges and way forward
  • The significance of this book
  • Note
  • Section 1
  • Social media and the legal community
  • 1. Environmental justice or ""government overreach"": The rhetorical landscape of the Gibson guitar factory raids
  • Introduction
  • How we got here: background on the political context of the Gibson Case
  • The Gibson guitar factory raid, version one: what actually happened
  • The Gibson guitar factory raid, version two: how the successful enforcement of an environmental law was transformed into a narrative of government overreach
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix: #x82;#x82;#x82;#x82;#x82;#x82;#x82;#x82;#x82;#x82;Video reports used in corpus listed in descending order according to the number of views
  • Partisan:
  • Non-partisan:
  • 2. Trial by (social) media: Anglo-Saxon and Italian practices in the digital age
  • Introduction
  • Trial by media in Italy
  • The Cosby case
  • Methodology
  • The adversarial system
  • Anglo-Saxon and Italian legal contexts
  • The Cosby case: analysing the data
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3. Legally dead, illegally frozen? The legal aspects of cryonics as discursively constructed online by providers and the media
  • Background
  • Aims, methods and corpus
  • Results and discussion
  • Cryonics is fraud
  • The Cryonics Institute subcorpus
  • The Alcor Life Extension subcorpus
  • The News corpus
  • Cryonics between life and life
  • The Providers corpus
  • The News corpus
  • Discussion and conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Primary sources
  • Cryonics Institute
  • Alcor Life Extension
  • References from the News corpus
  • General references
  • 4. The fuzzy line between media and judicial discourse: Insights from the Pinto-López Madrid Case
  • Introduction
  • The story
  • The study
  • Research questions, hypothesis and expected results
  • Material and methodology
  • Results
  • The characters of the story
  • The facts and their legal implications
  • The legal world
  • Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5. Ideological positioning in Amnesty International human rights web-based documents
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Terminology
  • Human and humanitarian rights
  • Amnesty International (AI)
  • Participant roles: Goffman's categories
  • Producers
  • Recipients
  • Ideology
  • Unifying
  • Action-oriented
  • Rationalizing
  • Legitimizing
  • Universalizing
  • Naturalizing
  • Normative
  • Seven documents
  • Brief overview of the five AI documents
  • AI webpage
  • Email to volunteers/members
  • Appeal letter
  • Response email
  • Report
  • Intertextuality
  • Intertextual traces in the seven documents
  • Ideological positioning
  • Final thoughts
  • Notes
  • References

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