Unsolicited commercial e‐mail, the internet and the first amendment: Another free speech showdown in cyberspace?

Samoriski, Jan H.

doi:10.1080/08838159909364516

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“…5 5 Some legal scholars have argued that spam is free speech and must be treated as such (Samoriski, 1999). They predict major legal battles on this point in the near future. …”

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A Comprehensive Analysis of Permission Marketing

Krishnamurthy

2006

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

116

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Godin (1999) has proposed a new idea‐permission marketing. Here, consumers provide marketers with the permission to send them certain types of promotional messages. This is seen as reducing clutter and search costs for the consumer while improving targeting precision for marketers. This paper makes three contributions: First, a critical analysis of the concept and its relationship to existing ideas in the marketing literature is discussed. Second, a taxonomy of four models used to implement permission marketing today, direct relationship maintenance, permission partnership, ad market and permission pool, is presented. Permission intensity is seen as a key differentiator among models. Finally, a comprehensive conceptual cost‐benefit framework is presented that captures the consumer experience in permission marketing programs. Consumer interest is seen as the key dependent variable that influences the degree of participation. Consumer interest is positively affected by message relevance and monetary benefit and negatively affected by information entry/modification costs, message processing costs and privacy costs. Based on this framework, several empirically testable propositions are identified.

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“…5 5 Some legal scholars have argued that spam is free speech and must be treated as such (Samoriski, 1999). They predict major legal battles on this point in the near future. …”

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A Comprehensive Analysis of Permission Marketing

Krishnamurthy

2006

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

116

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“…They are even able to tie such non-identifying information to personally identifying information when users submit personal information via forms (Van Wel and Royakkers, 2004). These practices clearly give rise to a conflict between commercial interests and people's right to be left alone (Cannon, 2002), in particular when they use the personally identifying information they have collected to send unsolicited commercial e-mails to customers (Samoriski, 1999). Companies argue that they need to collect data in order to meet consumers' needs more effectively (Foxman and Kilcoyne, 1993) and personalize offerings (Stead and Gilbert, 2001).…”

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A Typology of Communicative Strategies in Online Privacy Policies: Ethics, Power and Informed Consent

Pollach

2005

J Bus Ethics

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The opaque use of data collection methods on the WWW has given rise to privacy concerns among Internet users. Privacy policies on websites may ease these concerns, if they communicate clearly and unequivocally when, how and for what purpose data are collected, used or shared. This paper examines privacy policies from a linguistic angle to determine whether the language of these documents is adequate for communicating data-handling practices in a manner that enables informed consent on the part of the user. The findings highlight that corporate privacy policies obfuscate, enhance and mitigate unethical data handling practices and use persuasive appeals to increase companies' trustworthiness. The communicative strategies identified provide starting points for redesigning existing privacy statements with a view to communicating data handling practices in a more transparent and responsible manner, laying the groundwork for informed consent.

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“…Yet, the lack of credibility for promotions made through e-commerce and constant spamming have led some to question the viability of the mass saturation form of e-commerce (McKie & Bunz, 2001). With limited success, efforts to control unwanted email or spam have been balanced by arguments from spammers regarding their rights of expression (Samoriski, 1999).…”

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Communication Law and Policy: The State of Research and Theory

Reinard

Ortíz

2005

Journal of Communication

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This essay describes the domain of research in communication law and policy. It is based on a content analysis of research published in the journal Communication Law and Policy (1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004), papers presented to the Communication Law and Policy Division at annual conferences of the International Communication Association (1997Association ( -2004, as well as consideration of other resources. The most frequent areas for research were media regulation, Internet policy, and freedom of expression issues. After reviewing recent literature on the first two topics, we identified and showcased two emergent categories deserving future attention: communication and the law (particularly fair trial-free press issues) and implications of the burgeoning consolidation of media ownership.

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Unsolicited commercial e‐mail, the internet and the first amendment: Another free speech showdown in cyberspace?

Cited by 9 publications

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A Comprehensive Analysis of Permission Marketing

A Comprehensive Analysis of Permission Marketing

A Typology of Communicative Strategies in Online Privacy Policies: Ethics, Power and Informed Consent

Communication Law and Policy: The State of Research and Theory

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