The Handbook of Communication Rights, Law, and Ethics

Discover how modern technological realities shape freedoms of expression and opinion with this comprehensive resource.

The Handbook of Communication Rights, Law, and Ethics delivers an extensive review of the challenges facing modern communication rights. It offers readers an examination of the interplay between communication law and ethics and the role played by communication professionals in protecting individuals’ rights to communication.

Distinguished authors Loreto Corredoira, Ignacio Bel Mallén and Rodrigo Cetina Presuel walk readers through the fundamental ideas and concepts that represent universal common ground regarding communication rights. They compare communication rights theories developed in Europe, the United States, Latin America, Australia, and East Asia to describe how communication-related freedoms and rights are formulated and applied around the world. Finally, the meaning of the phrases “freedom of expression” and “freedom of the press” are examined in the context of national constitutions and international human rights instruments.The Handbook of Communication Rights, Law, and Ethics provides readers with:

• A diverse, global perspective on how communication rights are protected and challenged around the world
• A universal vision of communication rights that encourages dialogue rather than confrontation
• A comparison of the American First Amendment of the Constitution with European communication rights theories and other legal traditions around the world
• An exploration of the frontiers of communication rights concepts, terminology, jurisdiction, and territoriality

Perfect for professors, graduate students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral researchers studying communication rights and freedom of expression around the world, The Handbook of Communication Rights, Law, and Ethics also belongs on the bookshelves of researchers studying issues surrounding freedom of the press in North America, Europe, and Latin America.

Loreto Corredoira is Professor of Communication Law at Complutense University in the School of Communication and Jean Monnet Chair in Audiovisual Media Heritage. She is co-Principal Investigator of the R&D Project Guarantees against disinformation in electoral processes. Cibersecurity and other information disorders in Social Network which has studied Cyberlaw in Spain since 1998.,

Rodrigo Cetina Presuel is a Researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard law School where he conducts research about how private entities shape the digital public communication sphere. He is the United States East Coast Ambassador of IAMCR and co-Chair of the IAMCR Law section. He has taught Communication at Lasell University and Emerson College.

Ignacio Bel is Professor of Communication Law at Complutense University and Professor of Communication Ethics at CEU-San Pablo and the IEB. He is the President of the International Forum of Communication Law and Ethics (FIEDI). He served for 25 years as Director of Communication at the IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Madrid.

1. Why is the universality of communication rights important?

2. Freedom as the essential basis of communication rights.

3. Freedom of Expression in a New Reality: The False Universality of Rights in a Networked Society.

4. The origin of communication rights as a science

5. Article 19 and new challenges of the communication rights "regardless of frontiers"

6. Human dignity: A revolutionary principle

7. Communication rights in the universal texts: A study of article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

8. Minorities, Subjects and Rights Ownership and their relation to Communication Rights.

9. Objectivity, truth and factualism

10. Is There a Universal Right to Communication Across Legal Orders?

11. Internet Intermediaries and Communication Rights

12. Political Communication and Political Campaigns. A comparative analysis of the 1st Amendment and European conceptions of Communication Rights

13. Journalists, confidentiality and sources

14. Information disorders and disinformation

15. Public communication and post-truth

16. Data protection as a limit to communication rights. A general vision of Data Protection in Europe.

17. Journalism Law and Ethics in a Changing World: New Professional Realities, Duties and Challenges of Information Professionals

18. Ethical Challenges in the Age of Disinformation and Post-truth.

19. Finding Common Ground: Hate Speech Regulation in the US and Europe

20. The Multiple Dimensions of the Right to Communicate: An Approach from Mexico and Central America.

21. The crime of historical denialism as a limit to the freedom of expression: a European glance

22. Social Media and the Rights to Honor, Privacy and One´s Own Image: A South American Perspective

23. The European Right to be Forgotten: Community Memory Distorted by Search Engine Result Tampering

24. Current Policy Issues in Internet Intermediary Liability: A Global View

25. Media disorders: The end of ‘bright line distinctions’ in journalism.

26. From public interest to political interest: media regulatory practices in transition. A view from East Asia.

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