This assignment gives you experience in doing elementary research on a contemporary issue in media law and policy. Because media policymaking is a field which changes rapidly, you cannot rely only on traditional library research. Legal research requires the use of primary sources, that is, actual statutes, regulations, legislative histories, and court cases. You may be more familiar with secondary sources—perspectives of other authors and researchers who have used primary sources to write books, articles, and journals.

Choose one of the topics listed below (or your own topic if approved) and summarize where things stand as of Summer 2017. Use printed materials, FindLaw, Congress.gov, or other websites to locate sources. (See links below.) Summarize the issues, discuss their importance to media policy, and provide some perspective. Cite your sources and include a bibliography.

1. Network Neutrality: Maintaining a Free and Open Internet or More Unnecessary Government Regulation?

2. Electronic Coverage of the Courts: Participation or Spectacle?

3. Is There Too Much Freedom of Speech and Press in the 21st Century?

4. Copyright in the Digital Age: Protecting Interests of Creators and Users

5. Privacy in the 21st Century: Outmoded Concept or Needed More Now Than Ever?

6. Your choice (proposed topic must be approved by instructor)

1. Present the body of your paper in traditional narrative form; the text of this paper is to be 750-1000 words (3-4 pages, not including footnotes/endnotes or bibliography). As described above, summarize the issues, discuss their importance to media policy, and provide some perspective. Remember, stringing together sections from a statute, court case, or website does not qualify as summarizing an issue.

2. Include citations to the sources you examined to prepare your project. You may use traditional footnotes (notes at the bottom of each page) or end notes (notes at the end of the paper). Include case names and/or popular names of statutes. Do not use APA or MLA style (in-text citations). You must use and cite primary sources to receive a passing grade on this project. Here is a guide to Basic Legal Citation.

3. Do not cite “Internet” as a source. This is equivalent to using a book, then citing the source as “Library.” When you use a website, cite the actual cases, statutes, rules, etc., NOT just the URL.

4. The following are not acceptable sources and should not be cited. Use these materials as guides to other sources:

Lectures or textbooks from this or any other Ball State class
Wikipedia
Encyclopedias, Almanacs, or Facts on File (print or online)
Personal Interviews (must be approved by instructor)
Finding Acceptable Sources

Again, you must do the topic for For “Is There Too Much Freedom of Speech and Press in the 21st Century?” I already choose is there too much freedom of speech and press in the 21st century. Again, I am a another courtry’s person,

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