Freedom of Expression and Media Freedoms on the Eve of the Pandemic

How should a liberal democracy respond to hate groups and others that oppose the ideal of free and equal citizenship? The democratic state faces the hard choice of either protecting the rights of hate groups and allowing their views to spread, or banning their views and violating citizens' rights to freedoms of expression, association, and religion. Avoiding the familiar yet problematic responses to these issues, this book proposes a new approach called value democracy. The theory of value democracy argues that the state should protect the right to express illiberal beliefs, but the state should also engage in democratic persuasion when it speaks through its various expressive capacities: publicly criticizing, and giving reasons to reject, hate-based or other discriminatory viewpoints. Distinguishing between two kinds of state action—expressive and coercive—the book contends that public criticism of viewpoints advocating discrimination based on race, gender, or sexual orientation should be pursued through the state's expressive capacities as speaker, educator, and spender. When the state uses its expressive capacities to promote the values of free and equal citizenship, it engages in democratic persuasion. By using democratic persuasion, the state can both respect rights and counter hateful or discriminatory viewpoints. The book extends this analysis from freedom of expression to the freedoms of religion and association, and shows that value democracy can uphold the protection of these freedoms while promoting equality for all citizens.

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Constitutional Evaluation of Freedom of Expression Through Interactive Media in Cyberspace – Focusing on Implications of Interactive Media and Protection of Freedom of Expression by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States –

Korean Association of International Association of Constitutional Law ◽

10.24324/kiacl.2018.24.1.179 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 179-205

Author(s):

Sangkyung Lee ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

First Amendment ◽

Freedom Of Expression ◽

Interactive Media ◽

The United States

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Media Baru dan Fenomena Komunikasi Politik pada Pemilukada di Provinsi Banten 2011

Jurnal ULTIMA Comm ◽

10.31937/ultimacomm.v3i2.203 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 23-34

Author(s):

Afdal Makkuraga Putra

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Political Communication ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Freedom Of Expression ◽

New Order ◽

Surprising Result ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Use Of Internet ◽

New Phase ◽

Fair Balance

Political system in Indonesia after New Order regime has entered into a new phase, which is both fundamentally and practically different. With the growth of freedom of expression and the rise of information and communication technology (ICT), the use and practices of political communication is also striking a fair balance, two-ways direction, no longer dominated by government-only apparatuses. The use of internet and New Media in political communication realm has been pioneered since 1997, and has been growing ever since, thanks to the new practices of local election (Pilkada). This paper will address firstly, the theoretical framework of political communication in e-Democracy, and secondly, the application of New Media (website, blog, and social media sites) in local-based political communication, namely Pilkada in Banten at October 23, 2011. Having analysed the phenomenon in question, a surprising result appears. Even though all candidates of Governor and Deputy Governor of recent Pilkada Banten have used New Media as their communication and campaign media, nevertheless the interactivity factor embedded within those “New Media use” are largely neglected. Keywords: e-Democracy, political communication, New Media, interactivity.

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When Words Collide

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences ◽

10.35632/ajiss.v27i2.360 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 50-68

Author(s):

Aslam Farouk-Alli

Keyword(s):

Power Relations ◽

Freedom Of Expression ◽

Entry Point ◽

The West

The conflict between Islam and the West is rooted in contrasting worldviews that are informed by alternative moral underpinnings and differing existential implications. Furthermore, engagement between the Islamic and western paradigms is defined by imbalanced power relations in which the subaltern Islamic paradigm is pressured into conformance by the dominant western modernist paradigm. Using the issue of freedom of expression as an entry point, this article examines the contrasting cultural conduits that define each community by outlining the main tropes of their worldviews. It therefore attempts to suggest an alternative engagement between Islam and the West, one that emphasizes convergence over conflict.

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