Communication Law
Introduction
Communication Law encompasses the collection of legal and regulatory decisions related to individual and media expression. In the United States, communication law most directly deals with issues regarding First Amendment protections of speech and press. It is most often approached through topical analysis based on the source of regulation or target of litigation.
Instruction
Students wishing to better understand issues related to communication law have two primary options: coursework in the field of communication at the undergraduate or graduate levels or post-baccalaureate study in law. The goal of the former is to learn about legal issues related to the functions of media, primarily in the United States, although recently international survey courses on media law have been more widely offered. The goal of the latter is preparation for a legal career, possibly but not always, working in corporate, governmental, or nonprofit organizations interested in the function of media.
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- Advertising
- Agenda Setting
- Annenberg, Walter H.
- Argumentation
- Audience Fragmentation
- Brand Equity
- Censorship
- Codes and Cultural Discourse Analysis
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Communication Campaigns
- Communication History
- Communication Law
- Communication Networks
- Crisis Communication
- Critical and Cultural Studies
- Cross-tools and Cross-media Effects
- Cultivation
- Cyberpolitics
- Deliberation
- Diffusion of Innovations
- E-democracy/E-participation
- Elaboration Likelihood Model
- Embedded Coverage
- Entertainment
- Ethnography of Communication
- Family Communication
- Feminist Theory
- Freedom of the Press
- Gender and the Media
- Health Communication
- Hegemony
- Hostile Media Effect
- Indexing
- Information Processing
- Information and Communication Technology for Development
- Interactivity
- Intercultural Communication
- International Communications
- Interpersonal Communication
- Journalism
- Journalism and Trauma
- Knowledge Gap
- Mass Communication
- Media Convergence
- Media Credibility
- Media Dependency
- Media Ecology
- Media Economics
- Media Economics, Theories of
- Media Effects
- Media Ethics
- Media Literacy
- Media Policy and Governance
- Media Regulation
- Media Sociology
- Media, Gays and Lesbians in the
- Mobile Communication Studies
- News Framing
- Online Campaigning
- Perceived Realism
- Persuasion and Social Influence
- Political Advertising
- Political Economy
- Political Knowledge
- Priming
- Propaganda
- Public Opinion
- Public Relations
- Public Sphere
- Radio Studies
- Reality Television
- Reasoned Action Frameworks
- Religion and the Media
- Science Communication
- Scripps, E. W.
- Selective Exposure
- Semiotics
- Sex in the Media
- Small-Group Communication
- Social Change
- Social Cognition
- Social Interaction
- Social Media
- Social Movements
- Social Network Analysis
- Social Protest
- Sports Communication
- Stereotypes
- Third-Person Effect
- Time Warner
- Violence in the Media
- Web 2.0
- Youth and Media