What Is Free Speech For?

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3429-9
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: What Is It For?

Free speech is the subject of numerous conflicts, but what are its limits and who decides them? How can so many people simultaneously claim to be silenced and yet loudly clamour for scarce attention?

As the media pushes deeper into our lives, communication seems limitless: free speech transforms what is at stake in specific situations, on tech platforms and political protests, in university seminars and media debate.

What is Free Speech For? examines the gap between abstract discussions of free speech, and communication in democracies characterised by abundant speech but very little listening. It helps us understand this key concept important to human flourishing and the reality of how it is used and abused in contemporary societies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Titley, Gavan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten: Zensur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Presse & Journalismus
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Values

2. Publics

3. Media

4. Knowledge

5. Democracy

Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Gavan Titley is Professor of Media Studies in Maynooth University, Ireland. He is the author of Racism and Media (Sage, 2019), Is Free Speech Racist? (Polity, 2020), and The Crises of Multiculturalism (Bloomsbury 2011, with Alana Lentin).