Publisher's Synopsis
Mass communication is the study of how people and entities relay information through mass media to large segments of the population at the same time. The text Law of Mass Communications: Freedom and Control of Print and Broadcast Media includes substantial material involving new media, as technological changes affect traditional patterns of both communication and governance. First chapter employs the analytical method to examine the set out issues against the backdrop of the feeling that one views the mass media and law as complementary sectors that could impinge on each other in the facilitation of the operations of other sectors of the polity. Second chapter investigates the diversity policy within a broad context of legal, political, economic, and sociocultural grounds. The aim of third chapter is to investigate the media images of police role in one singular period of Hong Kong's occupy movement. Fourth chapter aims at exploring the role of media in informing health policies in Lebanon, identifying the factors influencing health reporting and investigating the role of evidence in health journalism and the quality of health reporting. Fifth chapter discusses about the media's redundant emphasis on risks and the elitist specious creation of collective worries, in particular with relation to the criminal phenomenon, presenting the results of criminological researches that validate the empirical demonstration of the media representation's artificiality of criminal risk. In sixth chapter, we update and unify traditional models of information spread and technology adoption to more accurately reflect the novel economic and social environments in which spreading now occurs. Last chapter focuses on Act CLXXXV of 2010 on media services and mass communication.
