Queensland’s biggest publisher – the police – try to calm the FB lynch mob
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw The resources of the Queensland Police Service Facebook fan page were stretched over the past 24 hours to cope with the public response to their announcement of an...
View ArticlePrejudging justice – lessons from the US
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw A riveting session at this week’s AEJMC convention in Chicago was billed “Prejudging Justice: The News Media and Prominent Criminal Trials”, featuring high profile...
View ArticleCONTEMPT update – experiment in collaborative scholarship
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Both of my recent books are relatively up to date but anyone researching media law in traditional and new platforms knows how quickly the landscape is changing. It’s...
View ArticleDEFAMATION update – an experiment in collaborative scholarship
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Both of my recent books are relatively up to date but anyone researching media law in traditional and new platforms knows how quickly the landscape is changing. It’s...
View ArticleSHIELD LAWS update – an experiment in collaborative scholarship
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Both of my recent books are relatively up to date but anyone researching media law in traditional and new platforms knows how quickly the landscape is changing. It’s...
View ArticleLegal responsibility online: are you left carrying the can? ( #defamation...
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Loosely adapted from my new book - Blogging and Tweeting Without Getting Sued: A global guide to the law for anyone writing online (Allen & Unwin, 2012).] —————-...
View ArticleSub judice – time to brush up on your Latin
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw The arrest and court appearance of a man accused of the rape and murder of Melbourne ABC staffer Jill Meagher has sparked a spate of commentary on social media – much...
View ArticleMapping social media use in courts – some text search gems
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw A search of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (Austlii) database offers some interesting insights into the use of social media terminology in the courts....
View ArticleJuries and Social Media commissioned report released
‘Juries and Social Media’ – our report commissioned by the Victorian Attorney-General – has just been published by the Standing Council on Law and Justice. You can view it as a PDF here. The report...
View ArticleWhen jurors go ‘rogue’ on the Internet and social media …
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw The term ‘rogue juror’ has been used widely and pejoratively to describe a range of juror actions running counter to judicial directions to restrict their inquiries and...
View ArticleThe courts and social media: what do judges and court workers think?
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Another article by our collaborative Courts and Social Media research team has been published – this time in the Judicial Officers’ Bulletin (Published by the Judicial...
View ArticleSocial media risks and rewards – @journlaw’s public lecture
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Professor of Journalism and Social Media, Griffith University, Australia] Public lecture presented August 27, 2013 at the Ship Inn Function Room, South Bank, as part...
View ArticleMySpace’s 10th anniversary: some social media stats
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Extracted from my public lecture 'Social Media - Risks and Rewards'] Social media and the broader devices and applications associated with Web 2.0 have become part of...
View ArticleSocial media and drugs, alcohol and mental illness just don’t mix
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Extracted from my public lecture 'Social Media - Risks and Rewards'] Researchers internationally are attempting to fathom the crucial question of why people –...
View ArticleSchools, social media and cyberbullying
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Extracted from my public lecture 'Social Media - Risks and Rewards'] We hear a great deal about the downside of social media use in schools. There have been well...
View ArticleSocial media risk and literacy in the new Australian civics curriculum
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Extracted from my public lecture 'Social Media - Risks and Rewards'] At the very least an important foundational literacy one must have to empower one to assess social...
View ArticleIf #cyberbullying is up, why is youth #suicide down?
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw [Extracted from my public lecture 'Social Media - Risks and Rewards'] Administrators and parents are indeed concerned about social media – partly because the little...
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