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Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age: A Historian’s Perspective
Church, Communication and Culture, volume 4 (2019), pp. 25-38
"Freedom of expression has a history. It is neither coeval with Christianity, as Catholic apologists sometimes assume, nor inherently valuable, as commentators in the United States often contend. On the contrary, it emerged in its modern form only in the seventeenth century as a byproduct of generat
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Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression
Top Insights
Göteborg: Nordicom (2019), 332 pp.
Direito à comunicação no Brasil 2018
São Paulo: Intervozes (2019), 80 pp.
The Price We Pay: Targeted for Dissent by the Tanzanian State
London: Amnesty International (2019), 36 pp.
"Since President John Magufuli took office in November 2015, the state has applied a raft of repressive laws restricting the rights of opposition politicians, human rights defenders, activists, researchers, journalists, bloggers and other online users. Cumulatively, the application of these laws has
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Die ukrainische Medienlandschaft: Divers, aber politisiert
Ukraine-Analysen, issue 215 (2019), pp. 2-9
"Laut ukrainischen Journalisten und Medienaktivisten hat sich die Lage der Medien in der Ukraine seit dem Euromaidan 2013/2014 in einigen Aspekten verbessert. Die Medien können freier berichten, die Regierung aktiver kontrollieren und sie fühlen sich vom Staat weniger unter Druck gesetzt. Gleichze
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Steering AI and Advanced ICTs for Knowledge Societies: A Rights, Openness, Access, and Multi-Stakeholder Perspective
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 197 pp.
"This report recognizes artificial intelligence (AI) as an opportunity to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through its contribution to building inclusive knowledge societies. Based on UNESCO’s Internet Universality ROAM framework agreed by UNESCO’s Member States i
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Media Freedom Monitoring Report
Ulaanbaatar: Globe International Center;Bar Association of Mongolia;Media Council of Mongolia (2019), 42 pp.
"Mongolia has much work to do to ensure full media freedom. Laws on defamation and access to information hamper media’s ability to report fully on matters of public interest and public figures engaged in public business. A deeper understanding of international standards on media freedom and the va
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Big Brother is Watching: Surveillance Regulation and its Effects on Journalistic Practices in Zimbabwe
African Journalism Studies, volume 40, issue 3 (2019), pp. 26-41
"In many African countries, including Zimbabwe, journalists have been subjected to various policy regulations that have widely been criticised for making the practice of journalism difficult. Part of the reason has been the advent of competitive politics that have left the ruling regimes scrambling
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Free Speech in the Digital Age
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xvi, 259 pp.
"This collection of thirteen new essays is the first to examine, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, how the new technologies and global reach of the internet are changing the theory and practice of free speech. The rapid expansion of online communication, as well as the changing roles of gov
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"To Speak Out is Dangerous": The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Thailand
Human Rights Watch (2019), 136 pp.
"Focusing on the period between the 2014 coup and flawed elections in March 2019, “To Speak Out is Dangerous” draws on interviews with individuals prosecuted for exercising their rights to speech or assembly, lawyers, journalists, students, and activists, and examination of police charge sheets,
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Violencia contra los periodistas
Top Insights
Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2019), 554 pp.
"La violencia contra los periodistas no es un hecho aislado. Esta es una práctica presente en países de todo el mundo y que se caracteriza por la impunidad que rodea a las muertes de comunicadores de diversos medios de comunicación. Esta situación no solo deja impune el crimen, también impide y
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La liberté d’expression à l’ère numérique: De l’infox à l’intelligence artificielle
Paris: Éditions de l'Immateriel, Orbicom;UNESCO (2019), 632 pp.
Dashed Hopes: The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Myanmar
Human Rights Watch (2019), 87 pp.
"This report—based largely on interviews in Myanmar and analysis of legal and policy changes since 2016—assesses the NLD government’s record on freedom of expression and assembly in its more than two years in power. It updates Human Rights Watch’s prior report, “They Can Arrest You at Any
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"There is a Price to Pay": The Criminalization of Peaceful Speech in Lebanon
New York: Human Rights Watch (2019), 122 pp.
"Over the past few years, Lebanon has witnessed an alarming increase in attacks on peaceful speech and expression. The country’s criminal defamation laws, which authorize imprisonment up to three years for peaceful speech, have been used against citizens who have written about pressing social issu
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La libertad de expresión (2018): En la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos: De la Opinión Consultiva OC-5/85, de 1985, a la sentencia sobre el Caso Carvajal y otros, de 2018
Miami: Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (2018), 162 pp.
State of Internet Freedom in Africa 2018. Privacy and Personal Data Protection in Tanzania: Challenges and Trends
Kampala: CIPESA (2018), 23 pp.
Freedom of Expression and Religious Hate Speech in Europe
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xv, 191 pp.
"In recent years, the Danish cartoons affair, the Charlie Hebdo murders and the terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris have resulted in increasingly strident anti-Islamic speeches by politicians. This raises questions about the limits to freedom of expression and whether this freedom can and should
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Open Journalism: The Road Travelled and the Road Ahead
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media;International Press Institute (IPI) (2018), iii, 69 pp.
"The present publication has a Janus-like function. It looks back on and reflects on a highly successful series of expert meetings and related work carried out by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media between 2014 and 2015. At the same time, it also looks forward, wondering h
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Legal Standards on Freedom of Expression: Toolkit for the Judiciary in Africa
Paris: UNESCO (2018), 218 pp.
"The toolkit encompasses a broad variety of issues, which should be considered by judicial actors in the course of their work to protect human rights. It covers legal standards of freedom of expression according to international and regional instruments and core texts and surveys pertinent jurisprud
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Media Ownership Monitor Sri Lanka
Reporters Without Borders;Verité Research (2018), 825 pp.
"Viewership, listenership and readership in the Sri Lankan media market is highly concentrated among a few media owners, many of whom have political affiliations. Limited access to ownership information and a number of regulatory shortcomings pose a further threat to media pluralism in the country."
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