Free Expression in the Age of the Internet
Subtitle: Social and Legal Boundaries
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 2, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780813391137
Subjects: Human rights; Impact of computing & IT on society; Internet; United States; Legal Reference / Law Profession; International Relations - General; Political Science; Social aspects; Computer Books: Internet General; Mass media; Constitutional - First Amendment; Freedom of speech; Internet - General; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights
First sentence: The great threat to free expression today, it has been argued, is not the power of government but rather the control and manipulation of information exercised by private industry: "Even in a democracy, even with all the late-twentieth-century panoply and paraphernalia of real-time world-wide communication (into every home), it is entirely possible to create a virtual screen of reverse reality between the great majority of all human beings alive on the planet and a small but powerful minority" (Childers, in Gerbner, Mowlana, and Schiller,1996, p. 176).