Ambiguities and Imperatives of Market Censorship: The Brief History of a Critical Concept
Journal: Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
Year: 2017

This article examines the origin and development of the concept of market censorship, ambiguities implicit in the concept and resistances to its use. It draws on historical examples to show that free expression is always subject to some regulation, and contends that, under neoliberalism, market censorship increasingly influences what and how we know. It identifies some critical communication perspectives that provide resources for developing a theory of market censorship, surveys the ways the te