Reputation and Defamatory Meaning on the Internet: Communications, Contexts and Communities

The determination of the appropriate scope of protection of reputation in the tort of defamation is crucially dependent on the construction of defamatory meaning. With the continuing rise of Internet publications, it is important to assess the impact of the various modes of Internet communications s...

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Main Author: CHAN, Gary Kok Yew
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sol_research-35082016-03-15T04:00:06Z Reputation and Defamatory Meaning on the Internet: Communications, Contexts and Communities CHAN, Gary Kok Yew The determination of the appropriate scope of protection of reputation in the tort of defamation is crucially dependent on the construction of defamatory meaning. With the continuing rise of Internet publications, it is important to assess the impact of the various modes of Internet communications such as Internet websites, hyperlinking, blogs, emails, Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media on defamatory meaning. Such defamatory meaning is being constructed based on the unique contexts and social expectations that have been generated by the various modes of Internet communications. The potential impact on defamatory meaning can also be assessed from the perspectives of the diverse online communities. 2015-12-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1556 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3508/viewcontent/P_ID_52631_SAcLJ_2015_27_694_730_ReputationDefamatoryMeaning.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Internet Law Law and Society
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CHAN, Gary Kok Yew
Reputation and Defamatory Meaning on the Internet: Communications, Contexts and Communities
description The determination of the appropriate scope of protection of reputation in the tort of defamation is crucially dependent on the construction of defamatory meaning. With the continuing rise of Internet publications, it is important to assess the impact of the various modes of Internet communications such as Internet websites, hyperlinking, blogs, emails, Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media on defamatory meaning. Such defamatory meaning is being constructed based on the unique contexts and social expectations that have been generated by the various modes of Internet communications. The potential impact on defamatory meaning can also be assessed from the perspectives of the diverse online communities.
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author CHAN, Gary Kok Yew
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title Reputation and Defamatory Meaning on the Internet: Communications, Contexts and Communities
title_short Reputation and Defamatory Meaning on the Internet: Communications, Contexts and Communities
title_full Reputation and Defamatory Meaning on the Internet: Communications, Contexts and Communities
title_fullStr Reputation and Defamatory Meaning on the Internet: Communications, Contexts and Communities
title_full_unstemmed Reputation and Defamatory Meaning on the Internet: Communications, Contexts and Communities
title_sort reputation and defamatory meaning on the internet: communications, contexts and communities
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2015
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1556
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