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Author:   Monroe Price (University of Pennsylvania) ,  Nicole Stremlau (University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9781316640319

ISBN 10:   1316640310
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   07 December 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword András Sajó; Introduction: 1. Speech and society in comparative perspective Monroe Price and Nicole Stremlau; Part I. Revisiting International Norms: 2. Islam, human rights and the new information technologies Ali Allawi; 3. Closure, strategic communications and international norms Monroe Price; Part II. Dewesternizing Tendencies: 4. Confucian speech and its challenge to the Western theory of deliberative democracy Baogang He; 5. From Gandhi to Modi: institutions and technologies of speech and symbolism in India William Gould; 6. The making of a media system in Uganda: a new vision and a revolutionary origin Nicole Stremlau; 7. Neoliberal 'good governance' in Lieu of rights: Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore experiment Cherian George; 8. Atatürk and contemporary speech lessons from the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Era Altug Akin; 9. Jewish law and ethics in the digital era Yoel Cohen; Part III. The West as Progenitor and Modifier of Concepts of Free Expression: 10. Where should speech be free? Placing liberal theories of free speech in a wider context Richard Danbury; 11. The history, philosophy and law of free expression in the United States: implications for the digital age Stephen M. Feldman; 12. The evolution of a Russian concept of free speech Elena Sherstoboeva; Part IV. Technology and Ideologies in Turbulent Times: 13. Free speech, traditional values and Hinduism in the internet age Rohit Chopra; 14. Cyber-Leninism: the political culture of the Chinese internet Rogier Creemers; 15. French national values, paternalism and the evolution of digital media Julien Mailland; 16. Strategies and tactics: re-shaping the internet in Ethiopia Iginio Gagliardone; Part V. Conclusion: 17. Philosophies and principles in turbulent times Monroe Price and Nicole Stremlau; Index.

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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). 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.

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