Research Handbook on Social Media and the Law

Edited by Thaddeus Hoffmeister, University of Dayton, USA and Marilyn Bromberg, The University of Western Australia, Australia

• ContentsIntroduction to the Research Handbook on Social Media 1Marilyn Bromberg and Thaddeus HoffmeisterPART I OFFENSIVE SPEECH ON SOCIAL MEDIA1 Defamation and social media law 8Lisa Ward and Julia Day2 Navigating online hate speech: a study from the New Zealand context 38Rachel Sue Yin Tan3 Counterman v. Colorado: the law of social media threats 57Jeremy Harris Lipschultz4 Regulating expressions on social media: communication offences – anEnglish and Welsh law perspective 71Laura Higson-Bliss and Adam PendleburyPART II REGULATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS5 Section 230 and social media immunity 94Gregory M. Dickinson6 Internal governance of social media platforms 112Kevin Frazier7 Terms of service of social media platforms 166Przemysław Pałka8 Transparency requirements and the marketplace of ideas 184Jared Schroeder and Evan Sparks Ringel9 Social media and intellectual property rights 202Enrico Bonadio and Akshita RohatgiPART III SOCIAL MEDIA IN COURT AND AT THE WORKPLACE10 ‘Suspicious minds’: the challenge of social media’s pre-trial publicity 225Nicholas Cardaci and Marilyn Bromberg11 Social media and employment law 253Justin Pen and Emily AitkenPART IV THE METAVERSE AND FUTURE RESEARCH12 Social media through the metaverse lenses: a legal review 274Jon M. Garon13 Empirical research on social media for legal scholarship: opportunities andchallenges from experience with data protection law research 297Ana-Maria Hriscu

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