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Shielding Marginalized Groups from Verbal Assaults Without Abusing Hate Speech Laws

Yared Legesse Mengistu

In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses

Michael Herz, Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 352-277

"There is immense difficulty in regulating hate speech on the ground of ethnicity when ethnicity is a prime cehicle for political organization and mobilization. On the one hand, substantive (real) equality demands that certain marginalized ethnic gropus be shielded from hate speech in order to have ... more

Does International Law Provide for Consistent Rules on Hate Speech?

Toby Mendel

In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses

Michael Herz, Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 417-429

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Orbing Hate? Satellite Transponders and Free Expression

Monroe E. Price

In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses

Michael Herz, Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 514-537

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The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses
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Michael Herz, Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), xxiv, 544 pp.

"The contributors to this volume consider whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that are cognizant of the varying traditions, histories, and values of different countries. Throughout, there is a strong comparative emphasis, with examples (and authors) drawn from ... more

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Opening Closed Regimes: Civil Society, Information Infrastructure, and Political Islam

Muzammil M. Hussain, Philip N. Howard

In: Digital Media and Political Engagement Worldwide: A Comparative Study

Eva Anduiza Perea, Michael James Jensen, Laia Jorba (eds.)

New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 200-220

"Ruling elites often try to co-opt civil society groups, and in times of political or military crises they can attempt to control the national information infrastructure. But a defining feature of civil society is independence from the authority of the state, even in countries such as Saudi Arabia a ... more

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Digital Media and Political Engagement Worldwide: A Comparative Study

Eva Anduiza Perea, Michael James Jensen, Laia Jorba (eds.)

New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), xv, 287 pp.

"This book focuses on the impact of digital media use for political engagement across varied geographic and political contexts, using a diversity of methodological approaches and datasets. The book addresses an important gap in the contemporary literature on digital politics, identifying context dep ... more

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Intellectual Property and Human Development: Current Trends and Future Scenarios

Tzen Wong, Graham Dutfield (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors (2011), 397 pp.

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Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life

Marwan Kraidy

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2010), xvi, 252 pp.

"Based on a wealth of primary data collected during five years, Reality Television and Arab Politics analyzes how reality television stirred an explosive mix of religion, politics, and sexuality, fueling heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political participation in the ... more

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Shadows of War: A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century

Efrat Ben-Ze'ev, Jay Winter, Ruth Ginio (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2010), ix, 223 pp.

"Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores the ways in which different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silence ... more

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The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

Luciano Floridi (ed.)

Cambridge; New York; Melbourne: Cambridge University Press (2010), xv, 327 pp.

"Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have profoundly changed many aspects of life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication, education, healthcare, industrial production and business, social relations and conflicts. They have had a radical and widespread impact on our ... more

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Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World

Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart

New York: Cambridge University Press (2009), xv, 429 pp.

"We have argued throughout this book that the various versions of the cultural convergence thesis are deeply flawed, whether one has in mind the ‘media imperialism’ argument that was fashionable during the 1970s, the ‘Coca-colonization’ claim that was popular during the 1990s, or contemporar ... more

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ICT4D: Information and Communication Technology for Development
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Tim Unwin (ed.)

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2009), xiv, 386 pp.

Digital Diasporas: Identity and Transnational Engagement

Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2009), x, 275 pp.

"In the first full-length scholarly study of the increasingly important phenomenon of digital diasporas, Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff examines how immigrants who still feel a connection to their country of origin use the internet. She argues that digital diasporas can ease security concerns in both the h ... more

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Language in South Asia

Braj B. Kachru, S. N. Sridhar, Yamuna Kachru (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2008), xxiv, 608 pp.

"Topics covered include the ongoing linguistic processes, controversies, and implications of language modernization; the functions of South Asian languages within the legal system, media, cinema, and religion; language conflicts and politics, and Sanskrit and its long traditions of study and teachin ... more

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Television, Power and the Public in Russia

Ellen Mickiewicz

New York: Cambridge University Press (2008), viii, 212 pp.

"The Russian media are widely seen to be increasingly controlled by the government. Leaders buy up dissenting television channels and pour money in as fast as it haemorrhages out. As a result, TV news has become narrower in scope and in the range of viewpoints which it reflects: leaders demand assim ... more

Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters

C. Edwin Baker

New York: Cambridge University Press (2007), xiii, 257 pp.

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Butcher's Copy-Editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-Editors and Proofreaders

Judith Butcher, Caroline Drake, Maureen leach

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, 4th ed., fully revised and upd. (2006), xiv, 543 pp.

"Since its first publication in 1975, Judith Butcher's Copy-editing has become firmly established as a classic reference guide. This fourth edition has been comprehensively revised to provide an up-to-date and clearly presented source of information for all those involved in preparing typescripts an ... more

Community Media: People, Places, and Communication Technologies

Kevin Howley

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2005), xiii, 309 pp.

"This groundbreaking study of community media, first published in 2005, combines original research with comparative and theoretical analysis in an engaging and accessible style. Kevin Howley explores the different ways in which local communities come to make use of various technologies such as radio ... more

The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism

Clifford Bob

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2005), xiv, 237 pp.

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