Looking at issues from defamation to intellectual property, this book gives a short and lively introduction to legal and ethical issues in the media. The text explains concepts relevant to traditional media practice in the press, television and radio, as well as those within new media contexts such as online news and social networking site.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2014, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia in July/August 2014. The 15 revised full papers and 9 short papers presented together with 6 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: diagram layout, diagram notations, diagramming tools, diagrams in education, empirical studies and logic and diagrams.