The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression - Couverture souple

Moon, Richard John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1487527829 ISBN 13 : 9781487527822

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2024

Synopsis

In The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression, Richard Moon argues that freedom of expression is valuable because human agency and identity emerge in discourse - in the joint activity of creating meaning. Moon recognizes that the social character of individual agency and identity is crucial to understanding not only the value of expression but also its potential for harm.

The book considers a range of issues, including the regulation of advertising, hate speech, pornography, blasphemy, and public protest. The book also considers the shift to social media as the principal platform for public engagement, which has added to the ways in which speech can be harmful while undermining the effectiveness of traditional legal responses to harmful speech. The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression makes the case that the principal threat to public discourse may no longer be censorship, but it is rather the spread of disinformation, which undermines public trust in traditional sources of information and makes engagement between different positions and groups increasingly difficult.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Richard Moon is a distinguished university professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1487527829
• ISBN 13: 9781487527822
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 358
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• Personne responsable: non disponible