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Chapter 2

“MEDIATED FORENSICS:
FROM CLASSROOM TO COURTROOM”

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Shaeda Isani and Geoffrey Sykes
1 Université Stendhal, Grenoble, France.
2 School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication,
University of Wollongong.

ABSTRACT

This chapter comprises a discussion paper that has as its stimulus or
point of departure an observation by one of us, (Shaeda Isani), about a
class of French law students, coming to terms with several documentary
studies about common law coronial courts. This chapter uses this
example to argue for the need for sophisticated methods and diverse
understanding of media processes, if inter-disciplinary progress in ‗law
and media‘ is to be made. The chapter invites discussion beyond the legal
domain, and simplified, old fashioned or singular accounts of media
effects and processes.

INTRODUCTION - TWO FORENSIC PROGRAMS

During the course of lectures designed to analyse differences between
common law and civil law legal professionals, it was necessary to talk about
the coroner, a professional who is specific to Common Law cultures and a