Censorship across Borders
Censorship across Borders

Author: Alberto Lázaro

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1443832529

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This volume brings together twelve essays which explore European censorship of English literature in the last century. Taking into consideration the various social, political and historical contexts in which literary controls were imposed and the extent to which they were determined by national and international concerns, these essays comment on political and moral censorship, self-censorship, and the role of the translator as censor. Besides systematic state control, other hidden and insidious forms of censorship are also surveyed in the essays. This study considers why certain works and authors, many of them now regarded as canonical, were targeted in various states and often under opposing ideologies, such as those dominated by conservative Catholic morality and those governed by communism or socialism. The essays contain previously unpublished material, cover a wide range of authors – including Beckett, Eliot, Joyce and Orwell – and analyse diverse censorship systems operating across Europe, thus serving as a useful comparative resource. Despite the variety of structures of suppression, the study shows that certain common practices can be discerned across national borders and that general conclusions can be drawn about the complex and ambiguous nature of the state’s relationship with culture and about the immediate and long-term impact of censorship, not only on the author and publisher but on society as a whole. Finally, the essays are also significant for what they tell us about the survival of literature, despite the best efforts of the censors.

Censored
Censored

Author: Margaret E. Roberts

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-04-10

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1400890055

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A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in China As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily thwarted and evaded by savvy Internet users. In Censored, Margaret Roberts demonstrates that even censorship that is easy to circumvent can still be enormously effective. Taking advantage of digital data harvested from the Chinese Internet and leaks from China's Propaganda Department, this important book sheds light on how and when censorship influences the Chinese public. Roberts finds that much of censorship in China works not by making information impossible to access but by requiring those seeking information to spend extra time and money for access. By inconveniencing users, censorship diverts the attention of citizens and powerfully shapes the spread of information. When Internet users notice blatant censorship, they are willing to compensate for better access. But subtler censorship, such as burying search results or introducing distracting information on the web, is more effective because users are less aware of it. Roberts challenges the conventional wisdom that online censorship is undermined when it is incomplete and shows instead how censorship's porous nature is used strategically to divide the public. Drawing parallels between censorship in China and the way information is manipulated in the United States and other democracies, Roberts reveals how Internet users are susceptible to control even in the most open societies. Demonstrating how censorship travels across countries and technologies, Censored gives an unprecedented view of how governments encroach on the media consumption of citizens.

Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship
Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship

Author: Anna Grøndahl Larsen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-08

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1000074870

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This book explores the relationship between the safety of journalists and self-censorship practices around the world, including local case studies and regional and international perspectives. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the globe, Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship provides new and updated insights into patterns of self-censorship and free speech, focusing on a variety of factors that affect these issues, including surveillance, legislation, threats, violent conflict, gender-related stereotypes, digitisation and social media. The contributions examine topics such as trauma, risk and self-censorship among journalists in different regions of the world, including Central America, Estonia, Turkey, Uganda and Pakistan. The book also provides conceptual clarity to the notion of journalist self-censorship, and explores the question of how self-censorship may be studied empirically. Combining both theoretical and practical knowledge, this collection serves as a much-needed resource for any academic, student of journalism, practicing journalist, or NGO working on issues of journalism, safety, free speech and censorship.

Journalists under pressure
Journalists under pressure

Author: Marilyn Clark

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 9287184461

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Freedom of expression is one of the basic conditions for the progress of society. Without safeguards for the safety of journalists there can be no free media. Journalists are under threat in Europe. Different forms of violence against journalists have increased significantly over the last decade: from physical attacks, to intimidation and harassment, targeted surveillance and cyberbullying, we now see a range of tactics deployed to silence critical voices and free speech. Together with impunity for the perpetrators of unwarranted interference on journalists, these are among the most serious challenges facing media freedom today. Self-censorship is hardly surprising in such circumstances. This study, conducted among almost 1 000 journalists and other news providers in the 47 Council of Europe member states and Belarus, sheds new light on how these issues impact on journalists’ behaviour. The results of the study provide quantitative evidence on such unwarranted interference, fear and how this relates to consequent self-censorship. These striking results confirm the urgent need for member states to fully implement Recommendation CM/Rec(2016)4 on the protection of journalism and safety of journalists and other media actors, and represent an essential and reliable tool for strategic planning in this field to guarantee freedom of expression.

Freedom of the Press Report
Freedom of the Press Report

Author: Heinz Duthel

Publisher:

Published: 2011-11-22

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 9781467979184

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Freedom of the Press ReportCensorship Internet censorship"Every news organization has only its credibility and reputation to rely on.""Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers"In 2010, the countries where press was the most free were Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The country with the least degree of press freedom was Eritrea, followed by North Korea, Turkmenistan, Iran and Myanmar (Burma)."If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and one, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind". Freedom of the Press (report) Freedom of speech Freedom of speech by country List of books banned by governments List of banned films Book burning Internet censorship circumvention Internet censorship by country Political correctness Historical revisionism (negationism) Universal Declaration of Human Rights Reporters Without Borders State media Committee to Protect Journalists International Freedom of Expression Exchange Press Freedom Index Liberty Rights Free will Moral responsibility Democracy Blacklist Death threat Kidnapping Torture Assassination Lira Baysetova Georgiy Gongadze Chechnya Burma Jammu and Kashmir Waziristan Agadez North Korea Glorious Revolution Parliamentary sovereignty Two Treatises of Government Individual and group rights Social contract Areopagitica Marketplace of ideas Utilitarianism On Liberty Official Secrets Act (India) Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act Reichstag Fire Decree Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Nazi Party Sicherheitsdienst White Rose Al Jazeera Daniel Pearl September 11 attacks Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act ARTICLE 19 Canadian Journalists for Free Expression Electronic Frontier Foundation Freedom House Index on Censorship Inter American Press Association Internationale Medienhilfe International Press Institute Media Legal Defence Initiative OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Student Press Law Center World Association of Newspapers World Press Freedom Committee Worldwide Governance Indicators Windhoek Declaration Editorial independence Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege" First Amendment to the United States Constitution Constitution of Sweden Freedom of the press in the Russian Federation Freedom of the press in the United States Freedom of the press in Ukraine Free speech in the media during the 2011 Libyan civil war Gag order Journalism Journalism ethics and standards Journaliste en danger Defamation List of freedom indices Media blackout Media transparency News embargo Section Two of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Muckraker Prior restraint Tunisia Monitoring Group World Press Freedom Day John Peter ZengerEnemies of the Internet: Burma China (excluding Hong Kong and Macau) Cuba Iran North Korea Saudi Arabia Syria Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Vietnam Countries Under Surveillance: Australia Bahrain Belarus Egypt Eritrea France Libya Malaysia Russia South Korea Sri Lanka Thailand Tunisia Turkey United Arab Emirates Venezuela

Freedom of Expression Across Borders
Freedom of Expression Across Borders

Author: Linda G. Kean

Publisher: ECU Academic Library Services

Published: 2023-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781469677941

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This book examines how freedom of expression can be defined, shared, acted upon and responded to globally. In curating this volume, the editors collected works on freedom of expression and communication, culture and identity from a broad swath of viewpoints. Scholarly contributions come from a variety of disciplines, including communication, literature, linguistics, translation, journalism, cultural studies, art, and other humanities and social science perspectives. This compilation addresses ideas such as censorship and free speech, minority and migration discourse, language and translation, mass media, including social media and advertising, and humor and political satire.

Translation and Censorship
Translation and Censorship

Author: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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"Who are the censors of foreign literature? What motives influence them as they patrol the boundaries between cultures? Can cuts and changes sometimes save a book? What difference does it make when the text is for children, or designed for schools? These and other questions are explored in this wide-ranging international collection, with copious examples: from Catullus to Quixote, Petrarch to Shakespeare, Wollstonecraft to Waugh, Apuleius to Mansfield, how have migrating writers fared? We see many genres, from Celtic hero-tales to histories, autobiographies, polemics and even popular songs, transformed on their travels by the censor's hand."--BOOK JACKET.

The Concubine's Children
The Concubine's Children

Author: Denise Chong

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780140255140

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"Carefully balancing cool observation and compassion, Chong writes extraordinary history and gives voice to the Chinese immigrant experience."--ALA Booklist.

Who Controls the Internet?
Who Controls the Internet?

Author: Jack Goldsmith

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-03-17

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0198034806

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Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events the original vision is uprooted, as governments time and time again assert their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades, argue Goldsmith and Wu, will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them. While acknowledging the many attractions of the earliest visions of the Internet, the authors describe the new order, and speaking to both its surprising virtues and unavoidable vices. Far from destroying the Internet, the experience of the last decade has lead to a quiet rediscovery of some of the oldest functions and justifications for territorial government. While territorial governments have unavoidable problems, it has proven hard to replace what legitimacy governments have, and harder yet to replace the system of rule of law that controls the unchecked evils of anarchy. While the Net will change some of the ways that territorial states govern, it will not diminish the oldest and most fundamental roles of government and challenges of governance. Well written and filled with fascinating examples, including colorful portraits of many key players in Internet history, this is a work that is bound to stir heated debate in the cyberspace community.