Freedom of Expression in the 21st Century

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Pine Forge Press, 1999 M01 25 - 228 páginas

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.

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Prologue
1
Thoughts as expression
14
Summary
28
Sedition and licensing in England
42
Alien and Sedition Acts
55
John Stuart Mill and tolerance
57
Resetting the boundaries of free speech
65
Summary
72
Hate speech
124
Advertising
133
Summary
141
Free speech for government?
148
chapter seven
160
Required speech
170
Summary
176
chapter eight
179

Majoritarian will in the 20th century
79
Summary
90
International declarations and covenants
96
Summary
109
chapter five
111
Obscene material
118
Reporting the government and privacy
194
Fair trial versus the peoples right to know
201
epilogue
211
index
223
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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Robert Trager teaches courses in communication law, freedom of expression, and media institutions at the University of Colorado. He is the founding editor of Communication Law and Policy. Before joining the University of Colorado faculty, Trager was an attorney with a major cable television company and practiced media law with a firm in Washington, D.C. Donna L. Dickerson is professor of communication and Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Tyler. Her teaching areas are communication law, freedom of expression, qualitative research methods, and critical and persuasive writing. Among Dickersons′ publications are books, chapters, and articles concerning the history of freedom of expression, media law, and media history. Before joining the University of Texas at Tyler, Dickerson was Director of the School of Mass Communications, then interim dean of the Graduate School at the University of South Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in journalism and mass communication from Southern Illinois University.

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