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Media and the Internet
The popularity of social media and the rise of the internet over the past couple of decades is very interesting and could lend itseld to a highly captivating dissertation. Take a look at some of our examples below:
Example media and the internet dissertation topic 1:
An examination of whether the use of section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 against Twitter ‘trolls’ is an example of how societal morals shape law.
Recently, the Communications Act 2003 has been used to successfully prosecute those labelled as ‘trolls’ on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. However, originally the Communications Act could not have envisaged such use as Facebook as an entity was launched in 2004. Therefore, have societies morals shaped the way the Communications Act 2003 is used? Should legislation, originally intended to regulate a specific entity, be reshaped by societal morals? This dissertation looks first at the connection between morality and the law and then at how morals have shaped the use of subject specific legislation to cover wider areas of the law.
Suggested initial topic reading:
- Edwards, L, ‘Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003: Threat or Menace?’ [2012] 23(4) SCL 134
- Hart, H L A, ‘Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals’ [1958] 71(4) HLR 593
- Gillespie, A, ‘Twitter, Jokes and the Law’ [2012] 76(5) JCL 364
