Lyombe Eko Research

Publications

A. Refereed Law Review and Journal Articles

Eko, L. (2009). Suffer the Virtual Little Children: The European Union, the United States, and International Regulation of Online Child Pornography. Journal of Media Law and Ethics.

Eko, L. & Berkowitz, D. (2009) “Le Monde, French Secular Republicanism and the Mohammad Cartoons Affair: Journalistic “Re-presentation” of the Sacred Right to Offend.” International Communication Gazette.

Eko, L. (2007). It's a Political Jungle Out There: How Four African Newspaper Cartoons Dehumanized and `Deterritorialized' African Political Leaders in the Post-Cold War Era, International Communication Gazette, 69 (3), 219-238.

Berkowitz, D. & Eko, L. (2007). “Blasphemy As Sacred Rite/Right: ‘The Mohammed
Cartoons Affair’ and Maintenance of Journalistic Ideology,” Journalism Studies. 8 (5) 779-797.

Eko, L. (2006). New Media, Old Regimes: The Historical and Ideological Foundations of French & American Regulation of Bias-motivated Speech and Expression on the Internet. Loyola International & Comparative Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 69-127.

Eko, L. & Tolstikova, N. (2005). The United States, the Russian Federation, and International Electronic Signature Policy. International Journal of Law and Policy. Issue 10, Online Journal of Yale University, the University of Münster, Oxford University, and Warwick University. Available at http://www.digital-law.net/IJCLP/.

Eko, L. (2005). Beasts of No Nation: Re-presentation of African Presidents in the Post-Cold War African Satirical Press. International Journal of Comic Art, 7 (1) 250-269.

Eko, L. (2002). Bombs and bombast in the NATO/Yugoslav War of 1999: the attack on Radio Television Serbia and the Laws of War. Communications & the Law, 24 (3), 1-45.

Eko, L. (2001). Many Spiders, one World Wide Web: Towards a typology of Internet Regulation. Communication Law and Policy, 6, 445-484.

Eko, L. (2001) Steps Toward Pan-African Cultural Exchange: Translation and distribution of programs across Africa's linguistic regions. Journal of Black Studies, 31, 365-379.

Eko, L. (2001). Jerry Springer and the Marlboro Man in Africa: Globalization and Cultural Eclecticism. Ecquid Novi, South African Journal For Journalism Research, 22, 25-40.

Eko, L. (2000). Public Broadcasting in a changing regulatory environment: The case of Africa. Ecquid Novi, South African Journal for Journalism Research, 21, 82-97.

Eko, L. (2000). The Law of Privacy in the United States and France: One President’s Impeachable Offense is Another’s Invasion of Privacy. Communications and the Law 22 (4).

Eko, L. (1998). Trademark Parody and the Mass Media: Going Beyond Survey Evidence in the Determination of “A Likelihood of. Confusion,” Communication Law and Policy 3:4 (Autumn).

Eko, L. (1997) "From Passive Victims of Cultural Imperialism to Participants in Multi-cultural Cooperation: Television Program Exchange in Africa" Ecquid Novi, South African Journal For Journalism Research, 18, 238-252.

B. Book Chapters (invited)

Eko, L. (2006). Life in the Margins of Globalization: Media Liberalization, Commercialization and hegemony in Africa. In Lee Artz & Yahya Kamalimpour (eds)., The Media Globe: Trends in International Mass Media, pp 1-20. Albany: SUNY Press.

Eko, L. (2004). Internet Connectivity and Development in Africa: Look before you “leapfrog!” In J. M. Mbaku and S.C. Saxena (Eds.). Africa at the Crossroads. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press (pp. 211–231).

Eko. L. (2004). Hear all evil, see all evil, rail against all evil: Le Messager and the “Journalism of Resistance” in Cameroon. In Joseph Takougang & John Mukum Mbaku (Eds.). The Challenge of Leadership in Africa: Cameroon Under Paul Biya. Cresskill, N.J: Africa World Press (pp. 123-151).

Eko, L. (2003). Between globalization and democratization: Governmental Public Broadcasting in Africa. In Michael McCauley, Lee Artz, DeeDee Halleck & Eric Peterson (Eds.). Public Broadcasting in the Public Interest. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe (pp.175-191).

Eko, L. (2003). Globalization, Political liberalization, Cultural Hegemony and the Mass Media in Africa. In Lee Artz (Ed.). Globalization and Corporate Media Hegemony. New York: SUNY Press ( pp.195-211).

Eko, L. (1998) Framing and priming effects. In G. Stone, M. Singletary & V. Richmond (Eds.), Clarifying communication theories: A hands-on Approach (pp. 276-288). Ames: Iowa University Press.

Book Review

Eko, Lyombe (2006). Regulated self-regulation as a form of modern government. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 30, 378-382.

C. Encyclopedia Entries (invited).

Eko, L. (2008). Internet Law and Policy. In International Encyclopedia of Communication, Wolfgang Donsbach (ed.). Malden, MA.: Blackwell.

Eko, L. (2008). Communication Law and Policy in Africa. In International Encyclopedia of Communication, Wolfgang Donsbach (ed.). Malden, MA.: Blackwell.

Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications: Donald Johnston, ed.

Eko, L. (2003) Freedom of the Press in Africa, Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications: Donald Johnston, (ed.). Elsevier Science.

Eko, L. (2003). Africa No. One Encyclopedia of Radio. Christopher H. Sterling & Michael Keith (eds.). Chicago: Fitzroy Dearbon.

Eko, L. (2003). Radio and Emergencies. Encyclopedia of Radio. Christopher H. Sterling & Michael Keith (eds.). Chicago: Fitzroy Dearbon.

Eko, L. (2003). World Radiocommunication Conferences (ITU). Encyclopedia of Radio. Christopher H. Sterling & Michael Keith (eds.). Chicago: Fitzroy Dearbon

Refereed Conference Presentations (selected).

Eko, L. “Advertising Parody, Religion, and the Law of Defamation in the United States and France.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, IL., August 2008.

Eko, L. “To Punish or Not to Punish Blasphemy; that is Not Out of the Question: The Mohammed Cartoons Controversy and Free Speech in Denmark and France.” Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Montreal, Canada, May 2008.

Eko, L. “The United Nations and the Mohammed Cartoons Affair: Creating a Global “Respect for Religion Exception” Under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Mass Communication Research, Stockholm, Sweden, July 2008.

Eko, L. & Berkowitz, D. “Le Monde, French Secular Republicanism and the Mohammad Cartoons Affair: Journalistic “Re-presentation” of the Sacred Right to Offend.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2007.

Eko, L. “Interest Groups and Internet Content Regulation in the United States and France: One Country’s Hate Speech is Another’s Free Speech.” (2nd Place Paper Competition Winner) Broadcast Education Association 2006 Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. April 2006

Eko, L. New Media, Old Mania: Regulation of Online Child Pornography Under European Union and American Law. Presented at the 56th Annual Conference of the International communication Association, Dresden, Germany. June 2006

Creative Production (Television Documentary).

Eko, L. (2007). Elephant-People: An African Secret Society and Globalization, Screened at the Africa world Festival of Documentary Films, University of Missouri-St. Louis in October 2007 and at the Musée de L’Homme, Paris, France in July 2008.

(Ethnographic documentary about the impact of globalization on an African secret society).