Includes reflective teaching materials for students and ready-reference material for practitioners. This issues based textbook focuses on examining a set of practical issues that arise in the regulation of media and communications.

Connect and converge - Australian Media and Communications Law Handbook is a practical, issues based textbook, which includes reflective teaching materials for students and ready-reference material for practitioners. Unlike existing media law texts that consider each of the "heads of law" inseperate chapters, this book focuses on examining a set of practical issues that arise in the regulation of media and communications. Legal concepts and enforcement and compliance issues are discussed in contect sothat each chapter begins with a "nutshell" explanation of the law, followed by illustration of the various issues through case studies, discussion points, real worl examples, exercises and think about it sections. This technique enable students to build their knowledge throughout the book in orde to criticall examine the law's response to social problems in media and communications law.