The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship offers a thorough exploration of the debates surrounding this contentious topic, considering the importance placed upon it in democratic societies and the reasons frequently proposed for limiting and constraining it.
This volume addresses the various historical, philosophical, political and cultural parameters of censorship and freedom of expression as well as current debates involving technology, journalism and media regulation. Geographically, temporally and culturally diverse accounts of censorship and freedom of expression are discussed through a broad range of perspectives and case studies. This Companion covers core principles and concerns in addition to more specialist and controversial debates, including those surrounding hate speech, holocaust denial, pornography and so-called cancel culture. The collection pays particular attention to the role of the media in both facilitating and suppressing freedom of expression.
Comprehensive, original and timely, The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship is a go-to resource for scholars and advanced students of media, communication and journalism studies.
The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship offers a thorough exploration of the debates surrounding this contentious topic, considering the importance placed upon it in democratic societies and the reasons frequently proposed for limiting and constraining it.
Introduction: Freedom of Expression in Turbulent Times
John Steel and Julian Petley
Part One: Concepts and Histories
Chapter 1: Freedom of Expression as a Pre-Enlightenment Concept
Jordi Pujol
Chapter 2: Freedom of Expression, the Enlightenment and the Liberal
Tradition
Geoff Kemp
Chapter 3: Histories of In/tolerance
Russell Blackford
Chapter 4: Literary influence and legal precedent: Censorship in the Court of
the Chancery, 1710-1823
Paul Whickman
Chapter 5: The Quest for Truth and Knowledge
Kristoffer Ahlström-Vij
Chapter 6: Autonomy and Freedom of Expression
Eric Barendt
Chapter 7: Bentham and Security against misrule
Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
Chapter 8: Freedom of Expression in the 20th Century
Sue Curry-Jansen,
Chapter 9: Philosophies of Censorship and Control
Eric Barendt
Part Two: Global Perspectives
Chapter 10: Freedom of Expression in Latin America in Times of Populism:
Between Western Normative Expectations and the Complexities on the Ground
Ezequiel Korin and Jairo Lugo-Ocando
Chapter 11: Protecting the pandemic press: Exploring press freedom in Africa
during the Covid-19 pandemic
Bruce Mutsvairo and Kristin Skare Orgeret
Chapter 12: Media Freedom in the Arab Region
Noha Mellor
Chapter 13: Censorship and Freedom of Expression in China
Chris Fei Shen and Weiying Shi
Chapter 14: Oscillating between speech freedom and national interests -
the contested boundaries of online Freedom of Expression in China
Yuan Zeng, and Tongzhou Ran
Chapter 15: Freedom of Expression and Democracy in Japan in the 2010s
Ryusaku Yamada
Chapter 16: Freedom of Expression and the legacy of colonialism: a view from
France
Imen Neffati
Chapter 17: Faith and Toleration in Neoliberal Times: Australia as a Case
Study
Adam Possamai
Part Three: Key Controversies
Chapter 18: The Harm in Hate Speech and in Holocaust Denial
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Chapter 19: Feminism and pornography
Fionna Attwood and Julian Petley
Chapter 20: Political Correctness: The Rights Favourite Bugaboo
Valerie Scatamburlo-DAnnibale
Chapter 21: Free Speech, Cancel Culture and the war on woke
John Steel
Chapter 22: Academic Freedom and Constrained Expression
Thomas Docherty
Chapter 23: Breaking News Media Freedom in Crisis
Simon Dawes
Chapter 24: P2P speech regulation Gossip, Reputation, and Norm Policing on
Social Media
Julie Seaman
Chapter 25: Vitriol and voice: Battlegrounds to control employee expression
on social media in work
Claire Taylor
Chapter 26: Emma Briant, Hack Attacks: How Cyber Intimidation and Conspiracy
Theories Drive the Spiral of Secrecy Hacking
Chapter 27: Violence, impunity and their impact on press freedom
Lada Trifonova Price
Part Four: Institutions, Technologies and Frameworks
Chapter 28: The Regulation of the Online World
Julian Petley
Chapter 29: Freedom of Expression and Human Rights: interrogating the focus
at Strasbourg on political expression under Article 10 ECHR
Helen Fenwick
Chapter 30: The ECHR Perspective on Whistleblowing as Speech: A case study of
national security whistleblowing
Dimitrios Kagiaros
Chapter 31: National Security and the Extension of State Power
Paul Lashmar
Chapter 32: Marketing Communications and Media: Commercial Speech, Censorship
and Control
Jonathan Hardy
Chapter 33: Regulating the Press in the UK
Tom OMalley
Chapter 34: Freedom of the Press in Britain: From Radical to Reactionary...
to Reinvigoration?
Aaron Ackerley
Chapter 35: Should I stay (on Twitter) or should I go? Three causes of
journalistic self-censorship on Twitter
Chrysi Dagoula
Chapter 36: All the news thats fit to report? News values and the free
press
Tony Harcup
Index
John Steel is a Research Professor in Journalism in the School of Humanities and Journalism at the University of Derby. He has published in the areas of journalism and media history, journalism and its relationship to and with the public as well as journalism ethics and freedom of the press.
Julian Petley is Honorary and Emeritus Professor of Journalism in the Department of Social Sciences, Media and Communications at Brunel University London. He has a particular interest in media regulation of all kinds, and has published widely in this area. He is a member of the editorial boards of the British Journalism Review, Ethical Space and Porn Studies, and editor-in-chief of The Journal of British Cinema and Television.
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