The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship

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.

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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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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.

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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 Right's Favourite Bugaboo

Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale

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 O'Malley

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 that's fit to report? News values and the 'free press'

Tony Harcup

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