scholarly journals Lost in translation – A case study of a public debate on freedom of expression and a neo-Nazi rally

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-108
Author(s):  
Christer Mattsson
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Lost In Translation

scholarly journals Freedom of Expression and the Media: A Case-study from The Netherlands

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Drs. Johan Snel
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Public Forum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Role ◽  
The Media

There is “no such thing as free (non-ideologically constrained) speech; no such thing as a public forum purged of ideological pressures or exclusions”. Stanley Fish’s famous thesis (1994) is illustrated by this case study on the public debate on freedom of expression in the Netherlands during the first decade of the 21st century. Far from serving tolerance or minority rights, as originally intended, it produced a whole line of argumentation that have excluded many from the public debate and filled it with a more exclusive content, especially regarding religion in general and Muslims in particular. A renewed identification with the toleration discourse would help the media in regaining their public role and will be helpful for journalists covering the debate.

Freedom of Expression and Shock Radio: Quebec CHOI-FM as a Case Study

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Gingras
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Main Argument

This paper deals with the use of the concept of freedom of expression by a Quebec City radio station, CHOI-FM, in its dispute with the CRTC and in the court case of Sophie Chiasson before the Quebec Cour supérieure. Although freedom of expression is the main argument used by CHOI-FM in 2004 and 2005, our hypothesis is that this argument is mainly instrumental. Nevertheless, freedom of expression must be analyzed because it is a major symbol of democracy; it is linked with lively public debate and individualism. In this case, freedom of expression is also used in an attempt to lend respectability to populism and illicit discourse.

scholarly journals Trusting the Corona-Warn-App? Contemplations on trust and trustworthiness at the intersection of technology, politics and public debate

2021 ◽  
pp. 026732312110283
Author(s):  
Judith Simon ◽  
Gernot Rieder
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Moral Duties ◽  
Moral Demands

Ever since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, questions of whom or what to trust have become paramount. This article examines the public debates surrounding the initial development of the German Corona-Warn-App in 2020 as a case study to analyse such questions at the intersection of trust and trustworthiness in technology development, design and oversight. Providing some insights into the nature and dynamics of trust and trustworthiness, we argue that (a) trust is only desirable and justified if placed well, that is, if directed at those being trustworthy; that (b) trust and trustworthiness come in degrees and have both epistemic and moral components; and that (c) such a normatively demanding understanding of trust excludes technologies as proper objects of trust and requires that trust is directed at socio-technical assemblages consisting of both humans and artefacts. We conclude with some lessons learned from our case study, highlighting the epistemic and moral demands for trustworthy technology development as well as for public debates about such technologies, which ultimately requires attributing epistemic and moral duties to all actors involved.

scholarly journals "Me and my students' smartphones in the classroom": A case study using arts-based methods

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Eleni Vakali ◽  
Alexios Brailas
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Basic Features

There is a new area flourishing within qualitative research based on methods using all forms of art: music, theatre, visual arts, and literature. In this paper we present an overview of the basic features of arts-based research; emphasizing on their meaning on education research, on the freedom of expression given to the participants in the research, and on the method the researcher applies to evaluate the collected data. We then present an arts-based research case study where the research questions relate to teachers’ reactions to the use of smartphones by students in the classroom. In this case study, teachers, especially those working on secondary education, are invited to portray their thoughts, emotions, and images that respond to these questions by painting them on a paper using markers. The findings show that the majority of the teachers are negative about the children using their smartphone in the classroom, along with evidence for teachers’ emotional response and how to confront the phenomenon.

Debunking Intermediary Censorship Framework in Social Media via a Content Retrieval and Classification Software

2017 ◽  
pp. 169-195
Author(s):  
Baramee Navanopparatskul ◽  
Sukree Sinthupinyo ◽  
Pirongrong Ramasoota
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Online Discussion Forum ◽  
Content Retrieval ◽  
Intermediary Liability ◽  
Online Service Providers

Following the enactment of computer crime law in Thailand, online service providers are compelled to control illegal content including content that is deemed harmful or problematic. This situation leads to self-censorship of intermediaries, often resulting in overblocking to avoid violating the law. Such filtering flaw both infringes users' freedom of expression and impedes the business of OSPs in Thailand. The Innovative Retrieval System (IRS) is thus developed to investigate intermediary censorship in online discussion forum, Pantip.com, as a case study of social media. The result shows that there is no consistency of censorship pattern on the website at all. The censorship criteria depend on type of content in each forum. Overblocking is also high, over 70% of removed content, due to intimidation of governmental agencies, lawsuits from business organizations, and fear of intermediary liability. Website administrator admitted that he would cut off some users to avoid business troubles.

scholarly journals Conflicting Policy Feedback: Enduring Tensions over Father Quotas in Norway

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Lise Ellingsæter
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Policy Feedback ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Main Area ◽  
Leave Policy ◽  
Reform Processes

Abstract This study aims to advance the understanding of drivers of fathers’ parental leave rights—a new political field and a main area of leave policy debate. Theoretically informed by the policy feedback literature, this case study of father quota policy in Norway demonstrates how conflicting political feedback processes over a quarter of a century, reflected in reforms by shifting government coalitions, have sustained tensions over the policy. The polarized public debate following an extension in the father quota in 2018 suggests that countermobilization via social media may play a new role in magnifying conflict and destabilizing post-reform processes.

Horse Play in the Canadian West: The Emergence of the Calgary Stampede as Contested Terrain

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 523-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brittany Gerber ◽  
Kevin Young
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Self ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Public Dialogue ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
History Of ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
Contested Terrain

Abstract As one example of how modern Western societies are increasingly obliged to reconcile questions of civility and justice against common, indeed revered, practices that compromise nonhuman animals, this paper examines the recent history of public debate regarding the use of animals for public entertainment in the Canadian West. Using media-based public dialogue regarding the annual Calgary Stampede (and especially chuckwagon racing) as a case study and couching the high-risk use of horses in the sociological language of “sports-related violence,” the paper explores the various arguments for and against the continued use of horses at the self-proclaimed “Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth” despite unambiguous evidence of the harm that regularly, and sometimes graphically, occurs.

‘Cyber hate’ vs. ‘cyber deliberation’

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 759-781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niku Dorostkar ◽  
Alexander Preisinger
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Racist Discourse ◽  
Automated Tools ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

Abstract Our contribution deals with an Austrian case study on racist discourse strategies in the forums of the Austrian online newspaper derStandard.at. First, we will consider forums as a communicative form characterised by specific linguistic features as well as its technical and functional design. Furthermore, we will present an analysis of the reader’s postings from a critical-discursive perspective following the discourse-historical approach, where the readers’ comments on articles on migration and language are investigated against the background of online-specific communication. Another subject of discussion will be areas of conflict between freedom of expression, deliberation and the ‘censorship’ of the forums by the editorial staff with the help of semi-automated tools for filtering out explicit racist postings. Finally, we discuss chances and risks of the investigated forums regarding discursive and social practices within democratically constituted societies and address the question which actions can be taken to improve the quality of such forums.

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