Research tools and sources for study of the laws regulating media and communication, including intellectual property, torts, and telecommunication law and the First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.")

  • FINS Global Information Age, published by The Federal Information News Syndicate, tracks legislation about computing and telecommunications issues.
  • Hobbes' Internet Timeline - more techie and less graphical than the BBN Internet Timeline. But it includes Web links to sources and projects. A good place to start research about the Internet.
  • Jefferson Muzzles - Awards given to an individual or a groups as "a means to draw national attention to abridgments of free speech and press." Archives go back to 1991.

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Reference Sources

General Reference on Media Law and Policy

The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law
Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 2000.
Reference Room: 070.415 As78a

Mass Media and the Constitution
New York: Garland, 1989
Reference Room: 343.0994 H642

Children and the Media

Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007
303.4833 [Online] 

Studying media effects on children and youth
Washington, D.C.: National Academies press, 2006
[Online]

Finding Cases

Media Law Reporter. (Paralegal 343.0994 B898) Washington, DC: Bureau of National Affairs. Multi-volume set.

 

Mass Media and the Constitution: An Encyclopedia of Supreme Court Decisions. (Ref 343.0994 H642) New York: Garland, 1989.

Laws
  • Decisions of the United States Supreme Court. (Ref 347.9973 Un3s) Rochester, NY: Lawyers Cooperative. Annual.
  • Fundamentals of Legal Research. (Ref 340.072 J159f) 7th ed. New York: Foundation, 1998.
  • Media Law Reporter. (Paralegal 343.0994 B898) Washington, DC: Bureau of National Affairs. Multi-volume set. 
  • United States Code Annotated. (Paralegal 348.023 Un3w) St. Paul, MN: West.
  • West's Annotated California Codes. (Paralegal 348.023 C128c) St. Paul, MN: West.
  • West's Supreme Court Reporter. (Paralegal 347.035 Un3) St. Paul, MN: West.
Analysis
  • Decisions of the United States Supreme Court. (Ref 347.9973 Un3s) Rochester, NY: Lawyers Cooperative. Annual.
  • FINS Global Information Age published by The Federal Information News Syndicate, tracks legislation about computing and telecommunications issues.
  • Hobbes' Internet Timeline - more techie and less graphical than the BBN Internet Timeline. But it includes Web links to sources and projects. A good place to start research about the Internet.
  • Jefferson Muzzles - Awards given to an individual or a groups as "a means to draw national attention to abridgments of free speech and press." Archives go back to 1991.
  • Propaganda Critic - The study and analysis of propaganda.
  • United States Code Annotated. (Paralegal 348.023 Un3w) St. Paul, MN: West.
  • West's Annotated California Codes. (Paralegal 348.023 C128c) St. Paul, MN: West.
  • West's Supreme Court Reporter. (Paralegal 347.035 Un3) St. Paul, MN: West.
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