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2022 ◽  
pp. 096100062110696
Author(s):  
Masanori Koizumi ◽  
Håkon Larsen

The purpose of this research is to examine the evolving democratic librarianship and its robust connection to the Nordic societal model. Through an analysis of libraries in Oslo, Tromsø, Stockholm, Aarhus and Helsinki, as well as recent changes in library laws, we have analysed contemporary democratic librarianship in the Nordic countries through four essential factors: (1) citizens in democratic activities within libraries, (2) library managerial decisions, (3) activities of political parties within public libraries and (4) library laws. Through the analysis, we show that this robust and unique ecosystem is supported by (1) discussions at book clubs and shared readings events connected to common societal concerns, (2) criteria of library directors and managers, such as neutrality, freedom of speech and clauses of the Library Act, (3) perception of politicians regarding public libraries as the centre of the democratic community and (4) the Library Acts critically impacting democratic librarianship.


2022 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 525-557
Author(s):  
Mohammad Muchlis Solichin ◽  
Ali Nurhadi ◽  
Achmad Muhlis ◽  
Wahab Syakhirul Alim ◽  
Moh. Zaiful Rosyid

Protection for teachers means an effort to avoid them from any kind of violence, threat, discrimination, injustice, criminalization, and deviant treatment coming from whether students, parents, or society. This study aims to examine three forms of protection for teachers in serving the job as educators namely in the realm of law, profession, and intellectual properties. It uses a juridical-sociological method in the qualitative data compilation technique. The data was obtained through in-depth interviews and desk study. Meanwhile, the data analysis is through reduction and conclusion making. It results in three conclusions. 1) The law protection for teachers comes in the form of advocacy, law dissemination, protection from any type of violence, friendly students’ education format, students' character building, and good communication with students' parent. 2) The protection for teacher in the realm of profession is through reasonable earning and freedom of speech. 3) The protection for teachers' intellectual property is through motivating them to be productive even though the results have not been well patented. حماية مهنة التدريس هي محاولة لحماية المعلمين من مختلف أشكال العنف والتهديدات والمعاملة التمييزية والظلم والتجريم والمعاملة المنحرفة من الطلاب وأولياء الأمور والمجتمع. تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى فحص أشكال حماية المعلمين في أداء واجباتهم كمعلمين. وطريقة البحث المستخدمة هي المنهج الاجتماعي القانوني في إطار البحث النوعي. وكان جمع البيانات عن طريق المقابلات المتعمقة والتوثيق. يتم تحليل البيانات بخطوات مع تقليل البيانات واستخلاص النتائج. من البحث المنفذ. تظهر نتائج هذه الدراسة أن هناك: 1) الحماية القانونية للمعلمين من خلال المناصرة القانونية والتنشئة الاجتماعية القانونية، والحماية من العنف ضد المعلمين، وتنسيق التعليم الملائم للأطفال، وتشكيل شخصية الطالب، وإجراء التواصل الجيد مع أولياء أمور الطلاب 2) الحماية المهنية مع لائقة الدخل وحرية التعبير عن الآراء 3) حماية الملكية الفكرية من خلال تشجيع المعلمين على الإبداع والتصنيف، ولكن هذه المصنفات لم يتم تسجيلها ببراءة اختراع.


2022 ◽  
pp. 13-33
Author(s):  
Karla L. Drenner

The chapter examines potential issues posed by the wide variety of state public accommodation statutes in the context of sexual orientation and religious freedom. The historical approach to antidiscrimination will briefly be examined. A review of recent cases of discrimination due to the legalization of same-sex marriage are analyzed in the context of the arguments regarding freedom of speech and freedom of religion.


Author(s):  
Gerison Lansdown ◽  
Ziba Vaghri

AbstractGovernment should create guidelines in schools to teach the students about the boundaries of their freedom of speech to prevent racist/sexist/harmful comments. (Asia-Pacific)


2022 ◽  
pp. 708-725
Author(s):  
Cristiano Felaco ◽  
Jacopo Nocerino ◽  
Jessica Parola ◽  
Roberta Tofani

This contribution studies the debated terms “politically correct” and “cancel culture” on Twitter and in particular investigates the meaning that people give when they label something or someone as politically correct or indicate a case of cancel culture in the Italian context, where they are not yet widespread as they are in the USA and Britain. A textual analysis of a corpus of tweets selected through a set of hashtags was carried out to identify thematic clusters to understand features and meanings given to these expressions, along with their ways of using in the various situations and contexts. The main results show different meanings of the term, in the negative sense as a limitation of freedom of speech, and in a positive sense as the exclusion of some terms that may offend some people or groups. In this case, the meaning of a word is relative and depends on the situation and context in which it is used. Furthermore, the recourse in the discourses of cancel culture is only rhetorical; there are no actions of cancellation or boycott of someone or something.


2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-512
Author(s):  
Anastazja Kołodziej

Having in mind the Law on the Provision of Electronic Services, the article presents selected issues in the field of strict liability of the service provider in the form of administrative penalties for publishing on social media criminal content or content that is related to it, in the form of praising or exhorting to commit the crime prohibited under Art. 256 of the Penal Code according to the Draft of the Law on the Protection of Freedom of Speech on Social Media. It presents selected issues concerning inaccuracies and imprecise definitions of the notions of service provider, user, and illegal content, especially in the context of content that does not exhaust the features of a prohibited act under Art. 256 of the Penal Code. It describes also the procedure to be followed in the event of the user’s complaint about blocking their content, profile or a complaint about disseminating illegal content. The author concludes that the assessment of illegal content that does not exhaust the features of a crime under Art. 256 of the Penal Code, but is related to it, in the form of praising or exhorting to commit it, will belong to the Freedom of Speech Committee. Additionally, the regulations of the Law on the Provision of Electronic Services and the Draft of the Law on the Protection of Freedom of Speech on Social Media are inconsistent because, on one hand, after the so-called flagging of the content on social media, the service provider is obliged to remove illegal content (Art. 14 of the Law on the Provision of Electronic Services), while, on the other hand, according to the commented draft of the law, he is exposed to proceedings before the Freedom of Speech Committee and its arbitrary classification of content as legal or illegal.


2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-214
Author(s):  
Dobromiła Nowicka

Transition from republic to principate brought a meaningful alteration in the area of conceiving freedom of speech. Republican standards in this matter were not apt for the new regime as it was too fragile to withstand the republican dissidence. New restrictions and ad hoc measures needed to be applied. Among them burning of books was of particular importance. The article deals with incidents of book burning in the times of Augustus (cases of Titus Labienus and Cassius Severus) and Tiberius (those of Mamercus Scaurus and Cremutius Cordus), which, although not numerous, were of high significance for freedom of speech within the new regime. On the basis of analysis of selected ancient sources and scientific literature on the matter, an answer to the question about their political meaning is sought. Accordingly, the socio-political background of change in the area of freedom of speech in the context of passing from a republic to the authoritarian regime of a principate needs to be taken into account. Unfortunately, historical sources regarding the matter are deeply unequivocal and scientific interpretations seem strongly conditioned by tendencies to discern crimen maiestatis in every case of book burning from the times of early empire, even if it is not plainly attested by ancient authors. It appears that the subsequent popularity of maiestas charges could have influenced the erroneous interpretation of previous incidents, which appear to have been — at least formally — distant from the law of injured majesty, being ad hoc measures at least in the times of the reign of Augustus. However, the essential point of analysis concerns the grounds of the incidents of burning books that took place under August and Tiberius, showing a step-by-step process of supressing the republican freedom of speech. Although rare, book burnings reflect a common tendency in new authoritarian rulers’ politics, which at first tend to deal with opponents unpopular among the aristocracy, only to move on to managing adversaries originating from the Roman élite. Nevertheless, the undertaken measures were not suitable for annihilating the books in question, contributing to their growth in popularity. The answer to the core question about the aims of book burnings under Augustus and Tiberius seems to boil down to mere propaganda, showing that dissident books would not be tolerated, no matter the social status of their authors.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-417
Author(s):  
Syed Wasim Raza ◽  
Azadi Fateh ◽  
Ayaz Khan

In the last twenty years’ Pakistani media have experienced remarkable progress and transformation in its role. There have been serious setbacks in current years. Almost more than one hundred private TV channels are currently broadcasting. Pakistan is one of the unsafe counties of the world for journalists as per the 2020 report of the International Federation of Journalists Pakistan. Pakistan has been a war zone for almost forty years, where 140 journalists were killed in Pakistan from 2000 to 2020 but still, Pakistani law does not guarantee journalists' safety. Are they feeling safe and secure and which steps will be important for journalists’ security and safety? This researcher is qualitative. The data have been collected by conducting interviews and applying the social responsibility theory to investigate, what is about the freedom of speech because this theory describes the claims that the journalist always plays a responsible role of passing the information with freedom and the task of the press is to make journalism better.


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