Full Description
Gun rights and control are well-trodden subjects, with prior work supporting the right of citizens to own firearms, discussing the failure of gun control efforts, or warning about or exhorting citizen gun ownership, among other things. Although social media in their many forms have only come to dominate modern U.S. life during the past decade, there has been little academic exploration of gun owner communities on the Internet and social media. How do gun owners use social media? How do they meet other gun owners online? What do they talk about as relates to guns? With a massive and well-organized collection of support material, Guns on the Internet faces these questions with an unbiased approach that seeks a foundation for mutual understanding.
Also available as an audiobook.
Contents
1. Introduction Part I. The Tour: Guns, the Internet and Social Media 2. How Gun Owners Use Social Media and the Internet 3. Gun Owner Communities on the Internet 4. Politicians and Lobbyists Online Talking Guns 5. Women in Online Gun Subculture Part II. First Amendment Protections for Gun-Related Online Content: Balancing the Right to Free Speech with the Need for Public Safety 6. The First Amendment and the Internet 7. Should YouTube Gun-Related Videos be Protected under the First Amendment's Free Speech Provisions? 8. Purchasing and Talking Firearms Online Part III. Finding Common Ground? 9. Finding Common Ground?
