Freedom of Expression Revisited
Title | Freedom of Expression Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Ulla Carlsson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Freedom Information |
ISBN | 9789186523749 |
The theme of this volume could be summarized as critical perspectives on experiences and conceptions of freedom of expression and the media in contemporary communication societies. The book reflects Nordic as well as global perspectives. The contributors are leading Nordic scholars, but also professionals outside the Nordic region, who have been engaged for years in research on freedom of expression from different angels.
Technologies of Freedom
Title | Technologies of Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Ithiel de Sola Pool |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2009-07-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0674042212 |
How can we preserve free speech in an electronic age? In a masterly synthesis of history, law, and technology, Ithiel de Sola Pool analyzes the confrontation between the regulators of the new communications technology and the First Amendment.
Free Expression and Democracy in America
Title | Free Expression and Democracy in America PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen M. Feldman |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 596 |
Release | 2009-05-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0226240746 |
From the 1798 Sedition Act to the war on terror, numerous presidents, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and local officials have endorsed the silencing of free expression. If the connection between democracy and the freedom of speech is such a vital one, why would so many governmental leaders seek to quiet their citizens? Free Expression and Democracy in America traces two rival traditions in American culture—suppression of speech and dissent as a form of speech—to provide an unparalleled overview of the law, history, and politics of individual rights in the United States. Charting the course of free expression alongside the nation’s political evolution, from the birth of the Constitution to the quagmire of the Vietnam War, Stephen M. Feldman argues that our level of freedom is determined not only by the Supreme Court, but also by cultural, social, and economic forces. Along the way, he pinpoints the struggles of excluded groups—women, African Americans, and laborers—to participate in democratic government as pivotal to the development of free expression. In an age when our freedom of speech is once again at risk, this momentous book will be essential reading for legal historians, political scientists, and history buffs alike.
Freedom of Speech
Title | Freedom of Speech PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Allport |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | 109 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 1438106017 |
Discusses the 1st Amendment right to free speech, with particular emphasis on defining and limiting dangerous speech, obscene expression, and the freedom of the press.
Freedom of Expression in the 21st Century
Title | Freedom of Expression in the 21st Century PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Trager |
Publisher | SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 1999-01-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Precisely because freedom of expression varies across countries and cultures and across media types, freedom of expression is discussed across a spectrum of geopolitical and technological contexts. Robert Trager and Donna L. Dickerson investigate the tensions between censorship and expression, to reveal how complex, culturally charged, and historically deep these tensions can be. Discussions are typically framed around social issues and set in contexts that allow readers to see connections between expression and commerce, politics, economics, class, race, and gender. The new frontier of digital communications, especially the Internet, is revealed as the latest battleground for law and social policy.
Media Policies Revisited
Title | Media Policies Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | E. Psychogiopoulou |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 491 |
Release | 2014-01-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137337842 |
Evangelia Psychogiopoulou brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic disciplines to investigate the media's freedom and independence, and the media policy processes, institutional spaces, regulatory practices and instruments that can support the development of free and independent media in Europe.
Jazz As Critique
Title | Jazz As Critique PDF eBook |
Author | Fumi Okiji |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2018-09-04 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1503605868 |
This “lucidly argued, historically grounded . . . and timely book” reexamines the relationship between black cultures, jazz music, and critical theory (Alexander G. Weheliye, Northwestern University). A sustained engagement with the work of Theodor Adorno, Jazz As Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. While Adorno's writings on jazz are notoriously dismissive, he has faith in the critical potential of some musical traditions. Music, he suggests, can provide insight into the controlling, destructive nature of modern society while offering a glimpse of more empathetic and less violent ways of being together in the world. Taking Adorno down a new path, Okiji calls attention to an alternative sociality made manifest in jazz. In response to writing that tends to portray it as a mirror of American individualism and democracy, she makes the case for jazz as a model of “gathering in difference.” Noting that this mode of subjectivity emerged in response to the distinctive history of black America, she reveals that the music cannot but call the integrity of the world into question.