Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Beattie, Scott.

Title Community, space and online censorship : regulating pornotopia / Scott Beattie.

Publication Info. Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
©2009

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (278 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-274) and index.
Contents Introduction : classification refused -- "Protect me from what I want" : censorship and internet classification -- Co-regulation and symbolic policy : The Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999 -- "Taking the red pill" : cyberspace, jurispace and the architecture of regulation -- Sexx laws : the spatial strategies of censorship -- Censorship, power and regulatory communities.
Summary This book compares the Australian solution to internet regulation, a set of laws which have been criticised as being both draconian and ineffectual, to major regulatory systems in the UK and US, and will be a valuable guide for anyone interested in internet theory generally.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Australia. Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999.
Australia.
Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999 (Australia)
Obscenity (Law) -- Australia.
Obscenity (Law)
Pornography -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
Pornography -- Law and legislation.
Internet -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
Internet -- Law and legislation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Pornography.
Other Form: Print version: Beattie, Scott. Community, space and online censorship. Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009 9780754673088 0754673081 (DLC) 2009000627 (OCoLC)298113165
ISBN 9780754689393 (electronic book)
0754689395 (electronic book)
9780754673088 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0754673081 (hardback ; alkaline paper)