Pictorial Law

1. Front Matter

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2. Caught Between Technophilia and Technophobia: Culture, Technology and the Law

   • Volker Boehme-Neßler

   Pages 1-18

3. Cultural Technology and the Law – The Example of Writing

   • Volker Boehme-Neßler

   Pages 19-49

4. The Power of Images

   • Volker Boehme-Neßler

   Pages 51-99

5. The Law and Images – A Difficult Relationship

   • Volker Boehme-Neßler

   Pages 101-149

6. Fuzzy Communication: Composition and Performance of the Law

   • Volker Boehme-Neßler

   Pages 151-182

7. Understanding Images – The Interpretation of Visual Legal Communication

   • Volker Boehme-Neßler

   Pages 183-191

8. Visual Law – The Law as Drama?

   • Volker Boehme-Neßler

   Pages 193-216

9. Words and Images in the Law – Looking for the Lost Balance

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   Pages 217-221

10. Back Matter

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We live in a digital Media Society, in which pictures are becoming more and more important. So, human communication is increasingly becoming a visual communication. That is not a new finding. But the new question is: What does this development mean for the law? Up to now the law is the part of the society which is most sceptical towards images. Law has still resisted the visual temptation. This will not last for ever. The rush of pictures in everyday life and in every part of the society is much too strong - and it is even getting stronger. The invasion of images will change the character of modern law deeply. Modern law will become a Pictorial Law.What are the chances and the risks of Pictorial Law and visual law communication? This is the topic of the book.

• Fuzzy Law
• Law and pictures
• Law and psychology
• oral law
• written law

• Berlin, Germany

  Volker Boehme-Neßler

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