Persona non grata
Subtitle: the death of free speech in the Internet age
By: Tom Flanagan
Publisher: Signal
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780771030536; 9780771030833
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Social aspects; Liberté d'expression; Aspect social; Médias; Political correctness; Freedom of speech; Mass media; Internet; Politiquement correct (Mouvement)
Description: In February 2013, Tom Flanagan, acclaimed academic, University of Calgary professor, and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, made comments surrounding the issue of viewing child pornography that were tweeted from the event he was speaking at and broadcast worldwide. In the time it took to drive from Lethbridge to his home in Calgary, Flanagan's career and reputation were virtually in tatters. Every media outlet made the story front-page news, most of them deriding Flanagan and casting him as a pariah.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248).

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Courting controversy; title: The incident; title: The panic over pornography; title: The mechanics of mobbing; title: The end of privacy; title: Academic freedom and teaching; title: Child pornography; title: The future of free speech.