From the author of The Shallows, a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society.From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Superbloom tells a startlingly different story. As communication becomes more mechanized and efficient, it breeds confusion more than understanding, strife more than harmony. Media technologies all too often bring out the worst in us.A celebrated commentator on the human consequences of technology, Nicholas Carr reorients the conversation around modern communication, challenging some of our most cherished beliefs about self-expression, free speech, and media democratization. He reveals how messaging apps strip nuance from conversation, how “digital crowding” erodes empathy and triggers aggression, how online political debates narrow our minds and distort our perceptions, and how advances in AI are further blurring the already hazy line between fantasy and reality. Even as Carr shows how tech companies and their tools of connection have failed us, he forces us to confront inconvenient truths about our own nature. The human psyche, it turns out, is profoundly ill-suited to the “superbloom” of information that technology has unleashed.With rich psychological insights and vivid examples drawn from history and science, Superbloom provides both a panoramic view of how media shapes society and an intimate examination of the fate of the self in a time of radical dislocation. It may be too late to change the system, Carr counsels, but it’s not too late to change ourselves. Read more

When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extaction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the audiences and customers we rely on. The impossibility of staying connected to these people after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations: it's a business strategy in service to commodifying your personal life and relationships.We can - we must - dismantle the tech platforms. In The Internet Con, Cory Doctorow explains how to seize the means of computation, by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most: interoperate. Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies, allowing users leave platforms, remix their media, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission.Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet. Read more

Will an older small-town cop make it in the high-crime big city?The sleepy bedroom hamlet of the Town of Camillus Police Department was a far cry from the challenges Officer Patrick MacKenna now faces following his lateral transfer. Throughout his career at CPD, he seldom drew his gun, but now he finds himself reluctant to leave it in the holster. As he tries to acclimate to the fast-paced life of a city cop in an urban setting, his daily log is filled with drug deals, gang violence, robberies, shootings, and stabbings. What's helping in the transition is that he's lucky enough to find an eclectic set of SPD officers who are turning out to really be brother's and sister's in arms!Join The Thin Blue Line Series™ everyone is talking about and order your copy today! Read more

Here’s a call to colleges and universities to consider implementing restorative practices on their campuses, ensuring fair treatment of students and staff, while minimizing institutional liability, protecting the campus community, and boosting morale. From an Associate Dean of Student Affairs who has put these models to work on his campus. Read more

This is a casebook on advertising and marketing law. While we’ve done our best to make the hard copy version of the book useful to you, the hard copy is missing some key features, such as an index and color images. Therefore, if you would like a PDF version of the book to complement your hard copy version, just email a copy of your purchase receipt for the hard copy to Professor Goldman ([email protected]) and he will email you a PDF at no extra cost. Read more

Explaining cybercrime in a highly networked world, this book provides a comprehensive yet accessible summary of the history, modern developments, and efforts to combat cybercrime in various forms at all levels of government—international, national, state, and local.As the exponential growth of the Internet has made the exchange and storage of information quick and inexpensive, the incidence of cyber-enabled criminal activity—from copyright infringement to phishing to online pornography—has also exploded. These crimes, both old and new, are posing challenges for law enforcement and legislators alike. What efforts—if any—could deter cybercrime in the highly networked and extremely fast-moving modern world? Introduction to Cybercrime: Computer Crimes, Laws, and Policing in the 21st Century seeks to address this tough question and enables readers to better contextualize the place of cybercrime in the current landscape.This textbook documents how a significant side effect of the positive growth of technology has been a proliferation of computer-facilitated crime, explaining how computers have become the preferred tools used to commit crimes, both domestically and internationally, and have the potential to seriously harm people and property alike. The chapters discuss different types of cybercrimes—including new offenses unique to the Internet—and their widespread impacts. Readers will learn about the governmental responses worldwide that attempt to alleviate or prevent cybercrimes and gain a solid understanding of the issues surrounding cybercrime in today's society as well as the long- and short-term impacts of cybercrime. Read more

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This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the issues surrounding freedom of expression, looking at the current legal position in a number of European countries as well as engaging with the wider debates on the topic amongst sociologists, political scientists and economists. In the book Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich addresses recent developments which have had a bearing on the debate including the changes in communication brought about by the internet, and the growing role of the European Union and the Council of Europe. Read more

Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events the original vision is uprooted, as governments time and time again assert their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades, argue Goldsmith and Wu, will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them. While acknowledging the many attractions of the earliest visions of the Internet, the authors describe the new order, and speaking to both its surprising virtues and unavoidable vices. Far from destroying the Internet, the experience of the last decade has lead to a quiet rediscovery of some of the oldest functions and justifications for territorial government. While territorial governments have unavoidable problems, it has proven hard to replace what legitimacy governments have, and harder yet to replace the system of rule of law that controls the unchecked evils of anarchy. While the Net will change some of the ways that territorial states govern, it will not diminish the oldest and most fundamental roles of government and challenges of governance. Well written and filled with fascinating examples, including colorful portraits of many key players in Internet history, this is a work that is bound to stir heated debate in the cyberspace community. Read more

Catch a Liar uses Psychological Narrative Analysis (PNA) to study word choices and grammar structures people choose when they communicate. PNA is a new, innovative technique that identifies specific words, speech patterns, and grammar structures that reveal a person’s behavioral characteristics and veracity. Both truthful and deceptive people use the same grammar rules to construct sentences. PNA identifies and exploits these differences. Read more

Simplify DORA (EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act) compliance with our concise and insightful guide. Designed for busy professionals, this guide distils key principles and compliance strategies into an easily digestible format.You’ll find:Clear explanations of DORA’s core requirements;Practical tips for implementation and compliance;Expert insights to enhance your operational resilience; andA compact format for quick reference. Read more

This fully revised third edition brings a fresh approach to the fundamentals of mass media and communication law in a presentation that undergraduate students find engaging and accessible.Designed for students of communication that are new to law, this volume presents key principles and emphasizes the impact of timely, landmark cases on today’s media world, providing an applied learning experience. This new edition offers expanded coverage of digital media law and social media, a wealth of new case studies, expanded discussions of current political, social, and cultural issues, and new features focused on ethical considerations and on international comparative law.Communication Law serves as a core textbook for undergraduate courses in communication and mass media law.This edition includes timelines to show students “what happened when” in the legal process. These simple diagrams are available at www.routledge.com/9780367546694. Read more

The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and patent laws to stifle creativity and progress.Lessig weaves the history of technology and its relevant laws to make a lucid and accessible case to protect the sanctity of intellectual freedom. He shows how the door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology is creating extraordinary possibilities that have implications for all of us. Vital, eloquent, judicious and forthright, The Future of Ideasis a call to arms that we can ill afford to ignore. Read more

The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will represent as great a change from what came before as the advent of electricity. The virtually unlimited amounts of data we’ll be able to send and receive through fiber optic connections will enable a degree of virtual presence that will radically transform health care, education, urban administration and services, agriculture, retail sales, and offices. Yet all of those transformations will pale compared with the innovations and new industries that we can’t even imagine today. In a fascinating account combining policy expertise and compelling on-the-ground reporting, Susan Crawford reveals how the giant corporations that control cable and internet access in the United States use their tremendous lobbying power to tilt the playing field against competition, holding back the infrastructure improvements necessary for the country to move forward. And she shows how a few cities and towns are fighting monopoly power to bring the next technological revolution to their communities. Read more

This is a casebook for students learning Internet Law, but other people interested in Internet Law may find it interesting as well. The book covers jurisdiction, contracts, trespass to chattels, intellectual property (copyright, trademarks, and domain names), child safety, defamation and other information torts (including Section 230), privacy, spam, and the legal issues applicable to social media. Please note that some of the printed images may be a little blurry. While I’ve done my best to make the hard copy version of the book useful to you, the hard copy is missing some features, such as color images, clickable links and keyword searching. You may find a PDF version of the book helpful to complement your hard copy version. Please email me ([email protected]) your hard copy purchase receipt showing the edition you bought and I will happily email you a PDF at no extra cost to you. Read more

Understand which body language “tells” are different across cultures, how diversity on a jury may impact a case, how crimes may be perceived differently across the world, and dozens of other critical cultural tips and taboos. Lawyers know that words matter, but quite often even the most brilliant content gets lost in translation. Imagine the following scenarios: • Your Asian client inadvertently blurts out a grotesque insult on the stand. • Hispanics on your jury start laughing at your body language. • A Russian negotiator seems to be lying right to your face. • A Japanese executive prefers jail time rather than tell you the truth. • A new French client questions your reasoning, rejects your advice, and debates your decisions. • A prospective client will not shake your hand. • Why do these things happen? Because people are not alike. Diverse languages, belief systems, business practices and traditions can make intercultural communications exceptionally complex. Sometimes, negotiations can break down over something as innocuous as whether you should interrupt someone, or sit silently and listen, or wait until you’ve had a meal together to discuss business at all. The field of law is increasingly competitive. You require accurate intercultural research to help you succeed with diverse clients domestically – as well as with international prospects both in person and virtually. Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands®: Courtrooms to Corporate Counsels has the right data – written with lawyers for lawyers – by the author whose books have sold 450,000 copies, and INC Magazine placed on its “7 Best Books on Negotiation” list. Be ready. All rise. Terri Morrison’s books have sold over 450,000 copies and have been translated into multiple languages—from Mandarin and Russian to Korean and Estonian. Knowledge is power. That is why Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands is given to new hires at firms like Ernst & Young, Glatfelter, and Lockheed-Martin—and is recommended reading at NASA, the US Department of Defense, and the State Department. Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands is one of INC. magazine’s “7 Best Books on How to Negotiate” and is also a Library Journal and Business Week “Best Business Book.” She is honored to be published by the American Bar Association. Her keynotes in intercultural communications, negotiations, global marketing and sales, diversity and inclusion, leadership, and globalization are informative and engaging. Seminar clients include multinationals like Accenture, American Airlines, American Express, ARI Fleet, AT&T, BAE, Boeing, Campbell’s, Cisco, Deloitte-Touche, DuPont, Ernst & Young, Federal Express, Franklin Templeton, HP, IBM, ILHM, Kronos, Marriott, Microsoft, NATO, Orbitz, Pepsi, and UTC; many associations, including the AICPA, AREAA, IFA, NAR, NBAA; World Trade Associations; universities like the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Villanova; and legal organizations like the ABA, DRI the Voice of the Bar, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, the Philadelphia Bar Association, and TAGLaw. She has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and repeatedly on NPR and the BBC. She has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Asia Times, Investor’s Weekly, National Geographic Adventure, ESPN, Fortune, and more. She lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and serves on several boards. Email: [email protected] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terri-morrison-2a940a7/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kissbowauthor?lang=en Website: www.TerriMorrison.com Phone: 610-725-1040 Read more

The Global Internet Law in a Nutshell presents a very timely overview of legal issues that arise from the World Wide Web. Topics include Internet-driven technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Bitcoins, The Internet of Things, 3D Products Liability, and Driverless Cars. This edition emphasizes the legal and policy issues arising out of social media such as Twitter’s decision to permanently ban President Trump from its platform. The goal is to provide the reader with an up-to-date summary of the most important new cases and statutory developments. Each chapter provides the latest developments in Internet Law from the European Union such as the General Data Protection Regulation, which is setting a global standard for privacy and data protection. Each chapter has examples and explanations of Internet Law developments from around the world. This nutshell provides global coverage of recurring Internet issues that lawyer and law students will encounter in practice. It is also serve as a useful introduction for non-lawyers and graduate as well as undergraduate students in diverse disciplines such as computer science, business, nursing, sociology, law and society and criminology. Read more

Fifteen years into the era of “cyber warfare,” are we any closer to understanding the role a major cyberattack would play in international relations - or to preventing one? Uniquely spanning disciplines and enriched by the insights of a leading practitioner, Rethinking Cyber Warfare provides a fresh understanding of the role that digital disruption plays in contemporary international security. Focusing on the critical phenomenon of major cyberattacks against wired societies, the book reconsiders central tenets that shaped global powers' policies and explains what forces in the international system might durably restrain their use. Arming the reader with the key technological and historical context to make sense of cyberattacks, it explores how deterrence, international law, and normative taboos operate today to shape whether and how states think about causing this kind of disruption - and how soon those forces might combine to rethink those decisions entirely. The result is a comprehensive look at one of the most pressing issues in international security that also illuminates a new pathway for managing one of its greatest sources of instability. Read more

GDPR: Personal Data Protection in the European UnionMariusz KrzysztofekPersonal data protection has become one of the central issues in any understanding of the current world system. In this connection, the European Union (EU) has created the most sophisticated regime currently in force with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679. Following the GDPR’s recent reform – the most extensive since the first EU laws in this area were adopted and implemented into the legal orders of the Member States – this book offers a comprehensive discussion of all principles of personal data processing, obligations of data controllers, and rights of data subjects, providing a thorough, up-to-date account of the legal and practical aspects of personal data protection in the EU.Coverage includes the recent Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judgment on data transfers and new or updated data protection authorities’ guidelines in the EU Member States. Among the broad spectrum of aspects of the subject covered are the following:–          right to privacy judgments of the CJEU and the European Court of Human Rights;–          scope of the GDPR and its key definitions, key principles of personal data processing;–          legal bases for the processing of personal data;–          direct and digital marketing, cookies, and online behavioural advertising;–          processing of personal data of employees;–          sensitive data and criminal records;–          information obligation & privacy notices;–          data subjects rights;–          data controller, joint controllers, and processors;–          data protection by design and by default, data security measures, risk-based approach, records of personal data processing activities, notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authority and communication to the data subject, data protection impact assessment, codes of conduct and certification;–          Data Protection Officer;–          transfers of personal data to non-EU/EEA countries; and–          privacy in the Internet and surveillance age.Because the global scale and evolution of information technologies have changed the data processing environment and brought new challenges, and because many non-EU jurisdictions have adopted equivalent regimes or largely analogous regulations, the book will be of great usefulness worldwide.Multinational corporations and their customers and contractors will benefit enormously from consulting and using this book, especially in conducting case law, guidelines and best practices formulated by European data protection authorities. For lawyers and academics researching or advising clients on this area, this book provides an indispensable source of practical guidance and information for many years to come. Read more

Here’s a call to colleges and universities to consider implementing restorative practices on their campuses, ensuring fair treatment of students and staff while minimizing institutional liability, protecting the campus community, and boosting morale. From an associate dean of student affairs who has put these models to work on his campus.Restorative justice is a collaborative decision-making process that includes victims, offenders, and others who are seeking to hold offenders accountable by having them (a) accept and acknowledge responsibility for their offenses, (b) to the best of their ability, repair the harm they caused to victims and communities, and (c) work to reduce the risk of re-offense by building positive social ties to the community.David Karp writes in his introduction, “As a student affairs administrator, I have become deeply committed to the concept and practice of restorative justice. I have experienced how it can work given the very real pressures among campus conduct administrators to manage high case loads, ensure fair treatment, minimize institutional liability, protect the campus community, boost morale in a division with high turnover, and help students learn from their mistakes without creating insurmountable obstacles to their future successes." Read more