Social Media and the Global Lawyer: An Analysis of the Restrictions on Commercial Advertising in the Nigerian Legal Profession.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Udoh
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Commercial Advertising

Social media and social change lawyering: influencing change and silencing dissent

2018 ◽  
Vol 169 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Naomi Sayers
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Upper Canada ◽  
Professional Conduct ◽  
Positive Approach ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
The Law

The Law Society of Ontario (formerly, the Law Society of Upper Canada) oversees the legal profession in Ontario, Canada, through The Rules of Professional Conduct (‘Rules’). All future lawyers and paralegals must adhere to the Rules. The Law Society sometimes provides guidance on sample policies informed by the Rules. In this article, the author closely examines the Law Society’s guidance on social media. The author argues that this guidance fails to understand how the Rules regulate experiences out of the legal profession and fails to see the positive possibilities of social media to influence social change, especially in ways that conflict with the colonial legal system. The author concludes that the Law Society must take a positive approach and provide some guidance for the legal profession on their social media use, especially around critiquing the colonial legal system. This positive approach is essential to avoid duplicating the systems and structures that perpetuate disadvantage in marginalized communities.

scholarly journals Sonic branding: a conceptualization of the mass media audience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mila Falkenstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Sonic Branding ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Commercial Advertising ◽  
Media Audience

This Major Research Paper (MRP) explores sonic logos, which are short sound bites used in commercial advertising to represent brands to the public. I discuss how these types of sounds are increasingly being used to attract audience attention in the current corporate and mass media landscape. My research is informed by scholarly debates about the role of the audience in contemporary media environments and traces key positions in this debate, including Celia Lury’s (1993) suggestion that contemporary audiences are passive and Philip Napoli’s (2010) suggestion that social media audiences now play a more active role in producing and sharing media content. Henry Jenkins (2004) provides a synthesis of these two views and states that while the audience has the option to be participatory on social media platforms, there is still an increasing trend toward concentrated ownership in the entertainment industry. I conducted interviews with advertising and branding professionals and analyzed the manner in which producers’ conceptualizations of the audience shape sonic branding practices. One key finding of my study is that media producers believe that changes in technology have changed the way that brand and media institutions interact with their audience. Another key finding is that producers view the contemporary media audience as distracted but also ore sophisticated due to their access and use of communication technologies.

scholarly journals Sonic branding: a conceptualization of the mass media audience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mila Falkenstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Sonic Branding ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Commercial Advertising ◽  
Media Audience

This Major Research Paper (MRP) explores sonic logos, which are short sound bites used in commercial advertising to represent brands to the public. I discuss how these types of sounds are increasingly being used to attract audience attention in the current corporate and mass media landscape. My research is informed by scholarly debates about the role of the audience in contemporary media environments and traces key positions in this debate, including Celia Lury’s (1993) suggestion that contemporary audiences are passive and Philip Napoli’s (2010) suggestion that social media audiences now play a more active role in producing and sharing media content. Henry Jenkins (2004) provides a synthesis of these two views and states that while the audience has the option to be participatory on social media platforms, there is still an increasing trend toward concentrated ownership in the entertainment industry. I conducted interviews with advertising and branding professionals and analyzed the manner in which producers’ conceptualizations of the audience shape sonic branding practices. One key finding of my study is that media producers believe that changes in technology have changed the way that brand and media institutions interact with their audience. Another key finding is that producers view the contemporary media audience as distracted but also ore sophisticated due to their access and use of communication technologies.

Social Media in the English Legal Context

2014 ◽  
pp. 84-105
Author(s):  
Iqbal Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control

This chapter examines the development of social media in relation to its impact on the law, legal system, and legal profession of England and Wales, considering other jurisdictions such as the United States of America and Australia. The author analyses the convergence between the opposing forces of legal certainty and control on the one hand, and mass, unrestrained social media on the other. In particular, the author reviews the challenges presented by the use of social media in modern society: in particular, a sophisticated legal system across a range of jurisdictions. The effect of social media is considered alongside the individual responses in each scenario, their effectiveness, and then, finally, the intuitional responses of the legal profession, lawmakers, and the judiciary as a whole to the rise of social media.

scholarly journals Menstruation and the Bar Exam: Unconstitutional Tampon Bans

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Bridget J. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Menstrual Products ◽  
Public Criticism

Some states have policies that prevent bar exam candidates from bringing their own menstrual products to the test. Via social media, awareness of these policies achieved new heights in the weeks leading up to the July 2020 bar exam. A small number of jurisdictions responded to public criticism by permitting test takers to bring menstrual products with them to the exam, whether administered traditionally or remotely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not all states have adopted permissive policies, however. This Essay explains why outright bans on menstrual products at the bar exam likely are unconstitutional. So-called alternate policies, such as making menstrual products available in women’s restrooms, are inadequate. Only a “free-carry” policy for menstrual products is consistent with welcoming all qualified candidates to the legal profession, without regard to biology.

Where Social Media Meets AAC

ASHA Leader ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Media
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