Community, Space and Online Censorship: Regulating Pornotopia

by Scott Beattie

Overview

This book compares the Australian solution to internet regulation, a set of laws which have been criticised as being both draconian and ineffectual, to major regulatory systems in the UK and US, and will be a valuable guide for anyone interested in internet theory generally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409496687
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	02/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Scott Beattie is a lecturer at the Victoria University School of Law and Co-director of the Communications Law Centre, a media law public interest body. His background is in university education and public policy work and he has worked in law reform both as a researcher and as a consultant. He has published a number of books on Media and Communications law.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Classification Refused; Chapter 2 ‘Protect me from what I want’: Censorship and Internet Classification; Chapter 3 Co-regulation and Symbolic Policy: The Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999; Chapter 4 ‘Taking the Red Pill’: Cyberspace, Jurispace and the Architecture of Regulation; Chapter 5 Sexx Laws: The Spatial Strategies of Censorship; Chapter 6 Censorship, Power and Regulatory Communities;

Editorial Reviews

'...a fresh approach to understanding the processes of moral regulation in secular, pluralist, states. This is no mean feat. Focussing on the censorship of internet-delivered "porn", Beattie identifies metasomic processes whereby regulatory regimes persist over time despite radically changing justifications. This work offers unique insights. A richly thoughtful study, it is grounded in careful attention to state practice and interpreted through the lenses of contemporary social theory, spatiality, regulatory fortressing, and critical human geography.' W. Wesley Pue, University of British Columbia, Canada

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