ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book illustrates some of the complexities of new media censorship faced around the world and the roles that theories of space and community have to play in the field. It seeks to interrogate the Act and the legal and regulatory culture from which it arose via three interconnected conceptual sites: through space, through power and through the concept of community. The book explores the concept of Internet censorship as a site of crisis for legal and regulatory theory, suggesting that spatial developments in theories of power and governance may assist in making sense of the issues raised by law. Spatial theory challenges the abstraction of liberal legal concepts, especially rule of law and jurisdictional maps. The work of Henri Lefebvre can be used extensively to examine the way in which law produces space and deploys strategies of spatial regulation.
