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The Electronic Media and the Transformation of Law - M. Ethan Katsh

The Electronic Media and the Transformation of Law

By: M. Ethan Katsh

Hardcover | 1 March 1989

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This is the first book to explore the broad influence of computers and television on the evolution of the American legal process. Katsh asserts that the electronic media have had an increasingly powerful impact on all facets of American law - its methods, values, and societal role. These changes, he argues, are related primarily to the appearance of new means of storing, processing and communicating information. Highly publicized legal cases, such as those involving libel verdicts, obscenity prosecutions, the First Amendment and other areas of media law have focused attention on only one part of the new media's impact on law. Katsh broadens the debate about the relationship between law and the electronic media, explaining the critical role of information in many different aspects of the legal process and arguing that the influence of new modes of communication can be seen in changes occurring in goals, doctrines, concepts, and beliefs that underlie our system of law. In the history of law, fundamental change has occurred very infrequently. This book looks at law in an evolutionary and historical light and explains why these new forms of electronic communications may be the trigger for one of these rare transformations.
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'Katsh's text is full and readable ... it must be considered a useful text for the legal scholar' Times Higher Education Supplement `engaging book ... provocative and entertaining' American Journalism `The book is a broad-based analysis of the literature of both law and media and includes an extensive bibliography.' Legal Studies Forum

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