Social Media in Legal Practice.
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- Law, Language and Communication Series .
- Law, Language and Communication Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Section 1 Social media and the legal community -- Section 2 Social media for client empowerment -- Section 3 Challenges and way forward -- The significance of this book -- Note -- Section 1 - Social media and the legal community -- 1. Environmental justice or "government overreach": The rhetorical landscape of the Gibson guitar factory raids -- Introduction -- How we got here: background on the political context of the Gibson Case -- The Gibson guitar factory raid, version one: what actually happened -- The Gibson guitar factory raid, version two: how the successful enforcement of an environmental law was transformed into a narrative of government overreach -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: ‚‚‚‚‚‚‚‚‚‚Video reports used in corpus listed in descending order according to the number of views -- Partisan: -- Non-partisan: -- 2. Trial by (social) media: Anglo-Saxon and Italian practices in the digital age -- Introduction -- Trial by media in Italy -- The Cosby case -- Methodology -- The adversarial system -- Anglo-Saxon and Italian legal contexts -- The Cosby case: analysing the data -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Legally dead, illegally frozen? The legal aspects of cryonics as discursively constructed online by providers and the media -- Background -- Aims, methods and corpus -- Results and discussion -- Cryonics is fraud -- The Cryonics Institute subcorpus -- The Alcor Life Extension subcorpus -- The News corpus -- Cryonics between life and life -- The Providers corpus -- The News corpus -- Discussion and conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Primary sources -- Cryonics Institute -- Alcor Life Extension -- References from the News corpus -- General references. 4. The fuzzy line between media and judicial discourse: Insights from the Pinto-López Madrid Case -- Introduction -- The story -- The study -- Research questions, hypothesis and expected results -- Material and methodology -- Results -- The characters of the story -- The facts and their legal implications -- The legal world -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 5. Ideological positioning in Amnesty International human rights web-based documents -- Introduction -- Background -- Terminology -- Human and humanitarian rights -- Amnesty International (AI) -- Participant roles: Goffman's categories -- Producers -- Recipients -- Ideology -- Unifying -- Action-oriented -- Rationalizing -- Legitimizing -- Universalizing -- Naturalizing -- Normative -- Seven documents -- Brief overview of the five AI documents -- AI webpage -- Email to volunteers/members -- Appeal letter -- Response email -- Report -- Intertextuality -- Intertextual traces in the seven documents -- Ideological positioning -- Final thoughts -- Notes -- References -- 6. Argumentation and video evidence in a legal context: A multidisciplinary case study from Brazilian military justice -- Justification/description of the problem -- Textual linguistics and argumentation on video evidence -- Case study -- Data analysis -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Section 2 - Social media for client empowerment -- 7. The discursive construction of Hong Kong's Civic Square in the media: Contesting social and legal perspectives -- Introduction -- The Discourse of Illusion -- Methodological framework -- Data -- The square as a symbol of fear and threat -- User comments (anonymized) -- The square as a symbol of right to assembly and free speech -- User comments (anonymized) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References. 8. Finding a way forward: A discourse analysis of the online popularization of restorative justice in the United Kingdom -- Introduction and background -- Restorative justice -- The (em)power(ment) of law through the power of narrative -- Restorative justice in the United Kingdom -- Aims and purposes -- Methods and data -- Analysis -- Homepage -- Informative sections -- Frequently asked questions -- Case studies -- Emotional language -- Tweets -- Discussion and conclusions -- Note -- References -- 9. Helping Aussie women online: A discourse analysis of the Australian eSafety Commissioner website -- Introduction and background -- Cyber-security and e-safety -- The eSafety Commissioner -- Victims of violence -- The eSafety Women website homepage -- Aims and purposes -- Methods and data -- Results -- Discussion and conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Webliography -- Programs -- 10. Discursive illusions and manipulations in legal blogs on medically assisted procreation: Parrillo v. Italy Case -- Introduction -- Popularization through blogs -- Methodological and analytical framework -- Materials -- Analysis and findings -- Paratexts as pre-selected reading keys -- Selective factualization -- Selective use of quotes -- Fallacious and logically forced argumentation -- Evaluative language -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- Note -- References -- 11. Jag 2.0: Legal advice and dissemination in online military lawyer forums -- Introduction: the influence of military culture and law on online legal discourse -- Aims and scope -- Dataset and methodology -- Popularization and adjustment of legal language -- Multimodal and linguistic trust building and client empowerment -- The lawyers and "lawyer"s assistant -- Demonstrating professional and discourse community knowledge and competence -- Hedging and liability reduction -- Final considerations -- Notes. References -- 12. The web-mediated construction of interdiscursive truth(s) about the MMR vaccine: A defamation case -- Defamation: language and law -- Materials and method -- Findings and discussion -- The use of potential defamatory language -- Malicious language -- Grammatical referencing -- Language cues -- The interdiscursive mediation of defamatory language -- Stancetaking in defamation: interdiscursive truth(s) -- Constructing triad interactions: fair comment -- The web as mediational means: the public matter of the MMR vaccine -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Section 3 - Challenges and way forward -- 13. The toxic proliferation of lies and fake news in the world of social media: Is it time for the law to "unfriend" Facebook? -- Fake news in the 2016 American presidential election and the UK Brexit referendum -- Fake news and market manipulation -- Legal responses to fake news in social media: the United States -- Legal responses to fake news in social media: the world outside the United States -- Self-regulation by social media corporations to respond to fake news on their platforms -- A coordinated approach in law and policy to de-weaponizing fake news in social media -- Digital literacy as a resource in the fight against fake news -- Conclusion -- References -- 14. "Fake news" as interdiscursive illusion: A challenge to law, social media, and free speech -- Overview -- Fake news: modern incarnation -- Demystifying alternative news -- Interdiscursivity in critical genre analysis -- Interdiscursive appropriation in alternative news -- Fake news as interdiscursive illusion -- Socio-legal remedies to control fake news -- Legal remedies and free speech -- United States of America -- United Kingdom -- France -- Germany -- The Republic of India -- Malaysia -- Singapore -- Russia -- Response from the social media. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 15. Information and communication technology in alternative dispute resolution: Is it facilitative or disruptive? -- Introduction -- Illegally obtained and unverified evidence: courts' and tribunals' approach -- Response from rules related to evidence and illegally obtained evidence -- Clean hands doctrine and other theories to be used for illegally obtained evidences -- Clean hands doctrine -- A three-step test theory -- A two-step admissibility test -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Index.
This volume focuses on three major aspects of mediated communication through social media. It will be a valuable reference for international scholars in law and other socio-legal studies, discourse analysis, and practitioners in legal and alternative dispute resolution contexts.