What Is Free Speech For?

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

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: What Is It For?

Free speech drives conflicts about who speaks, but who is heard is rarely considered. As digital media push deeper into our lives, free speech involves not only limits, but seemingly limitless communication, transforming what is at stake on tech platforms and in political protests, in universities and media debate.

What Is Free Speech For? examines the gap between abstract discussions of free speech and communication in democracies with abundant speech but very little listening. It shows how free speech is used and abused today and why it is essential to human flourishing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Titley, Gavan

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Crises

2. Free / Speech

3. Speakers

4. Democracy

5. Media

6. Publics

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).