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The free speech wars: How did we get here and why does it matter

The free speech wars: How did we get here and why does it matter
The free speech wars: How did we get here and why does it matter
Assembling a diverse group of commentators, activists and academics, this book answers the following questions: who gets to exercise free speech and who does not? What happens when powerful voices think they have been silenced? Why do some issues become sites of free speech battles and what are the consequences of this? How do the spaces and structures of 'speech' - mass media, the internet, the lecture theatre, the public event, the political rally - shape this debate?

Ultimately, the book argues that free speech is invoked by actors right across the political spectrum, but that in reality very few of the debates have a clear or coherent idea of what is meant by the concept of 'free speech'.
Manchester University Press
Riley, Charlotte Lydia
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Riley, Charlotte Lydia
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Riley, Charlotte Lydia (ed.) (2021) The free speech wars: How did we get here and why does it matter , Manchester. Manchester University Press, 296pp.

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Assembling a diverse group of commentators, activists and academics, this book answers the following questions: who gets to exercise free speech and who does not? What happens when powerful voices think they have been silenced? Why do some issues become sites of free speech battles and what are the consequences of this? How do the spaces and structures of 'speech' - mass media, the internet, the lecture theatre, the public event, the political rally - shape this debate?

Ultimately, the book argues that free speech is invoked by actors right across the political spectrum, but that in reality very few of the debates have a clear or coherent idea of what is meant by the concept of 'free speech'.

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Accepted/In Press date: November 2020
Published date: 2021

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Local EPrints ID: 442531
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/442531
PURE UUID: 2e86c3b1-c0d1-4281-9e3f-c27fddf70cda
ORCID for Charlotte Lydia Riley: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4901-6073

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Date deposited: 17 Jul 2020 16:31
Last modified: 25 Mar 2023 02:47

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