The Mass Media, the Law and National Security: The Nigerian Perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-128
Author(s):  
Elo Ibagere
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
National Security ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Mass Media

The Politics of the Police

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Bowling ◽  
Robert Reiner ◽  
James W E Sheptycki
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Police Work ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Mass Media

In its fifth edition, The Politics of the Police has been revised, updated, and extended to take account of recent changes in the law, policy, organization, and social contexts of policing. It builds upon the previous editions’ political economy of policing to encompass a wide global and transnational scope, and to reflect the growing diversity of policing forms. This volume explores the highly charged debates that surround policing, including the various controversies that have led to a change in the public’s opinion of the police in recent years, as well as developments in law, accountability, and governance. The volume sets out to analyse what the police do, how they do it and with what effects, how the mass media shape public perceptions of the police, and how globalization, privatization, militarization, and securitization are impacting on contemporary police work. It concludes with an assessment of what we can expect for the future of policing.

Satanic Ritual Abuse

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Ritual Abuse ◽  
Systematic Survey ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Satanic Panic ◽  
New Religion

The notion of an international Satanist conspiracy became prominent during the so-called Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) scare. This scare—also referred to as the ‘Satanic Panic’—peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During these years, significant segments of the law enforcement community and numerous therapists believed in the existence of a vast, underground network of evil Satanic cults sacrificing and abusing children. Less responsible members of the mass media avidly promoted the idea as an easy way of selling copy and increasing ratings. Although the Satanism scare did not involve an empirically-existing new religion, it shared many themes with the cult controversy. Anti-cultists, for example, jumped on the Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) bandwagon as a way of promoting their own agenda, and NRM scholars spear-headed the academic analysis of the scare. In “Satanic Ritual Abuse,” James R. Lewis presents a systematic survey of this phenomenon.

Should We Have a “General Right to Privacy” In Israel?

1977 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Gavison
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Mass Media

In recent years there has been a growing concern about privacy in many countries. Consequently demands are being made that the law should afford privacy a more adequate protection. This new concern about privacy may seem surprising when we recall that people have always gossipped, that individuals have always sought information about others for various purposes, and that governments have always had an interest in knowing as much as they could about their citizens. The intensity of these recent demands for more legal protection suggests that conditions have changed, and that this change has created new threats for privacy. To deal effectively with these new threats we must first identify and understand them.It appears that a combination of various factors, all of which are somehow related to technological developments, is responsible for arousing this interest in privacy. First is the development of the mass-media, which removed the traditional limitations on dissemination of information, and created an artifical demand for such information. Second is the development of electronic devices enabling invasions of privacy which were hitherto impossible. Third is the development and use of computerised systems for the storage and compilation of information. The threats to privacy are evident. Information about us can be retrieved from the files, or sought by detectives or journalists aided by sophisticated devices against which there is virtually no protection. This information may be used against us or disseminated in the mass-media and thus become “public knowledge”. Movements and conversations may be recorded.

scholarly journals ARAH FORMULASI KEBIJAKAN KOMUNIKASI

Populasi ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Nadhya Abrar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Alternative Method ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Mass Media

Law No.32, 2002, was formed in response to the problems society has faced for approximately four years regarding the absence of laws governing the broadcast media (lawless broadcasting era). In reality, the presence of this law has not been accepted by those involved in broadcast media and has resulted in the criticism of this law by such parties. Several questions have been raised by these criticisms, mainly: What direction does the formulation of Law No.32, 2002 lead? In response to this question the writer examines the passages of the Law qualitatively. This has lead to the discovery that the formulation of Law No. 32, 2002, is not conducive to the building of a healthy Indonesian democracy. The direction of the formulation of the rules governing broadcast media as laid out in Law No.32, 2002are believed to be incapable of being useful within a civil society. Because of this, the writer presents an alternative method for the formulation of the direction for appropriate communication. This is achieved through combining issues of the communication media in Indonesia by outlining the primary characteristics of the mass media, social media and interactive media from their respective positions.

scholarly journals Which Governments May Control the Mass Media: Iran and Kurdistan as a Case Study?

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Araz Ramazan Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Comparative Study

 Abstract   This paper is the comparative study in order to discover the motives of using censorship on Media.  The main argument of this study is to determine the "Using of Censorship on Media in different government states” Consistently, the study depends on document analysis method and academic sources as well.Correspondingly, the study focuses on Media and democracy and then Mass Media in Iran and Kurdistan region of Iraq.  Finally, the law of press in Iran and Kurdistan will be analysis to know the key elements of censorship in both governments.

scholarly journals Peran Wartawan Dalam Perlindungan Hak Anak Perspektif Undang-Undang Pers

PERSPEKTIF ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Dedi Sahputra
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Freedom Of The Press ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Mass Media

In the mass media coverage of children in conflict with the law, children's rights must be protected. Therefore journalists in producing journalistic works and mass media that disseminate information about children in conflict with the law must keep the identity of the child, both the child as the perpetrator, the child as the victim, and the child as a witness, as well as all information related to the child. In the process of producing journalistic work, a press institution has a flow of copy process which is a mechanism to ensure the fulfillment of checks and balances on the information produced. In addition, there is also a right of reply mechanism in the mass media that regulates if violations occur in journalistic work as mandated in the Press Law and Journalistic Code of Ethics. This mechanism is regulated is nothing but to guarantee the freedom of the press in carrying out the functions of the press which is essential in the life of the nation and state. With this right of reply mechanism, the press that publishes journalistic works that violate the rights of children in conflict with the law, must still be responsible without having to involve aspects of criminal law in it.

scholarly journals Media Scandals as Fake News is Dangerous for the National Security

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Boryana Angelova-Igova
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
National Security ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media

In a Requiem for Media Jean Baudrillard described the civil war in Timisoara, Romania, in 1989. He discovered that the war was to a large extent instigated by the mass media. Nowadays, the media have the possibility to decontextualize events and objectify them by placing them in a different context, alongside other decontextualized events. This could be very dangerous and lead to serious national security problems. Media could provoke social turbulence and “real” crimes. My aim in this paper is to describe this problem and show possible solutions. While following the methodology adopted, I examine case studies and analyze specific historical events.

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