ABSTRACT
There are multiple aspects of electronically-mediated communication that influence and have strong implications for legal practice. This volume focuses on three major aspects of mediated communication through social media. Part I examines social media and the legal community. It explores how this has influenced professional legal discourse and practice, contributing to the popularity of internet-based legal research, counselling and assistance through online services offering explanations of law, preparing documents, providing evidence, and even encouraging electronically mediated alternative dispute resolution. Part II looks at the use of social media for client empowerment. It examines how it has taken legal practice from a formal and distinct business to one that is publicly informative and accessible. Part III discusses the way forward, exploring the opportunities and challenges. Based on cases from legal practice in diverse jurisdictions, the book highlights key issues as well as implications for legal practitioners on the one hand, and clients on the other.
The book will be a valuable reference for international scholars in law and other socio-legal studies, discourse analysis, and practitioners in legal and alternative dispute resolution contexts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |89 pages
Section 1 - Social media and the legal community
chapter 1|15 pages
Environmental justice or “government overreach”
chapter 4|16 pages
The fuzzy line between media and judicial discourse
chapter 6|12 pages
Argumentation and video evidence in a legal context
part |106 pages
Section 2 - Social media for client empowerment
chapter 7|19 pages
The discursive construction of Hong Kong’s Civic Square in the media
chapter 8|18 pages
Finding a way forward
chapter 9|16 pages
Helping Aussie women online
chapter 10|14 pages
Discursive illusions and manipulations in legal blogs on medically assisted procreation
chapter 12|20 pages
The web-mediated construction of interdiscursive truth(s) about the MMR vaccine
part |47 pages
Section 3 - Challenges and way forward