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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...

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Prejudging 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...

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CONTEMPT 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...

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DEFAMATION 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...

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SHIELD 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...

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Legal 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).] —————-...

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Sub 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...

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Mapping 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....

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Juries 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...

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When 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...

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The 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...

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Social 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...

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MySpace’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...

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Social 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 –...

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Schools, 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...

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Social 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...

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If #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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