New media, old regimes : case studies in comparative communication law and policy / Lyombe S. Eko.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-426) and index.

Mapping the terrain of comparative communication law -- International approaches to the study of comparative communication law and policy : regulatory regimes and policy transfer -- Politico-cultural approaches to comparative communication law and policy : exceptionalism, mentalities, and asymmetries -- The European supranational communication law and policy regime -- Multilateral resolution of communication problems : the international communications regulatory regime -- New media, old authoritarian regimes : instrumentalization of the internet and networked social media in the "Arab Spring" of 2011 in North Africa -- Human rights versus religions rites :The Mohammad Cartoons Affair and the clash of religious "establish(mentalities)" in Denmark and France -- New technologies, old mentalities : the internet, the minitel and exceptionalist information and communication technology policy -- New technologies, old governmentalities : internet surveillance in the United States and the Russian Federation -- American exceptionalism, the French exception, and harmonization of intellectual Property Law by the United States and France -- New media, old mania : regulation of child pornography under International, European Union and American jurisprudence -- New realities, old ideologies : communication law, legal transfers and "developmentality" in Africa -- New media, ancient animosities : "propaganda of the deed" and the laws of war in the NATO/Yugoslav Conflict of 1999.