| Speech and Society in Turbulent Times: Freedom of Expression in Comparative Perspective Contributor(s): Price, Monroe (Editor), Stremlau, Nicole (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1107190126 ISBN-13: 9781107190122 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law - Political Science | Civil Rights |
| Dewey: 323.443 |
| LCCN: 2017043989 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.43" W x 9.51" (1.33 lbs) 350 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume explores how societies are addressing challenging questions about the relationship between expression, traditional and societal values, and the transformations introduced by new information communications technologies. It seeks to identify alternative approaches to the role of speech and expression in the organization of societies as well as efforts to shape the broader global information society. How have different societies or communities drawn on the ideas of philosophers, religious leaders or politicians, both historical and contemporary, that addressed questions of speech, government, order or freedoms and applied them, with particular attention to applications in the digital age? The essays include a wide variety of cultural and geographic contexts to identify different modes of thinking. The goal is to both unpack the 'normative' internet and free expression debate and to deepen understanding about why certain internet policies and models are being pursued in very different local or national contexts as well as on a global level. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stremlau, Nicole: - Nicole Stremlau is Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford. She is also Research Professor at the University of Johannesburg. She previously worked for a newspaper in Ethiopia, and has researched new technologies and innovation in Somalia and Somaliland and media and election violence in Kenya. She is the recipient of a European Research Council Starting Grant and her research and work has also been funded by the Open Society Foundations, Google, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the United Nations, among others.Price, Monroe: - Monroe Price is founder of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford. He directed the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School and helped develop centers for media policy studies in Moscow, Budapest, New Delhi and elsewhere. An international media Moot Court established at Oxford bears his name. His most recent book is Free Expression, Globalization and the New Strategic Communication (Cambridge, 2015). |
