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Censorship, digital media, and the global crackdown on freedom of expression
Title:
Censorship, digital media, and the global crackdown on freedom of expression
Author:
Andersen, Robin, editor.
ISBN:
9781433199752
Physical Description:
x, 441 pages ; 23 cm.
Series:
Liberatory stories and voices from community colleges, Vol. 2
Contents:
Introduction / Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon and Steve Macek -- From Afghanistan to Ukraine : war, disinformation, and censorship / Robin Andersen -- Censorship by proxy and moral panics in the digital era / Andy Lee Roth, Avram Anderson, and Mickey Huff -- The fake news crusaders : exploring the people and practices that spread fake news while working to fight it / Nolan Higdon -- Weak, collapsing, or resilient media ecosystems? : three scenarios for the future of climate crisis news / Antonio Lopez -- Silencing the students : attacks on freedom of the press on campus / John K. Wilson -- Automating market censorship : authoritarianism and democracy in the twenty-first century / Sue Curry Jansen -- The delusion of power : investigating the myth of social media user power in the age of big tech censorship / Nolan Higdon -- Showstoppers : can the Pentagon shoot down a film? / Roger Stahl -- Judgement based on gender : patriarchy as a tool of censorship / Allison Butler -- The fascist right, rightwing media, and the war on critical race theory / Anthony DiMaggio -- Rightwing attacks on academic freedom in Hungary, Turkey and the United States / Steve Macek -- A fate worse than censorship : the UK, WikiLeaks, and Julian Assange / Kevin John McEvoy -- When the crackdown is a coup : informational autocracy and media in Myanmar / Lisa Brooten -- Censorship and the emperor's fake clothes : media repression in the Philippines from Marcos to Duterte / Amy Forbes & Gary Mariano -- Israel and Saudi Arabia : the killing of journalists Shireen Abu Akleh and Jamal Khashoggi, and the end of meaningful human rights discourse in US policy / Robin Andersen -- The Brazilian far-right, academic freedom, and the defense of democracy / James Green -- How to remove a dictator : people, power, and media in Uganda / Kalemba Kitzo -- News media censorship and platform control in Venezuela : back to the future! / Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Monica Marchesi -- Repression and restrictions on internet freedom of expression : the great firewall of China, and the loss of democracy in India / Arthur Hayes and Robin Andersen -- From Egypt to Qatar : media coverage of world events, hidden conflicts and human rights violations in the Middle East / Robin Andersen -- Mexican journalists under siege : between the harassment of local governments and the lethal violence of organized crime / Juan S. Larrosa-Fuentes -- Elon Musk, Twitter, Ukraine and Iran : "free-speech outsider" or essential partner in the military industrial complex / Alan MacLeod -- Conclusion / Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon and Steve Macek.
Abstract:
"The recent upsurge in censorship is a global phenomenon taking many forms across the media spectrum as well as in schools, universities and public spaces. Physical assaults against and legal restrictions on journalists, writers, intellectuals, scholars, artists and students are on the rise in a number of countries. Writers and scholars have been jailed. Publications and websites have been closed. Political elites and their allies have seized control over academic institutions of all kinds. Whole topics-queer sexuality, gender identity, critical race theory, state violence and militarism, government corruption, financial crimes, environmental degradation-have been excluded from public discourse either by governing elites or powerful corporations. Censorship, Digital Media and the Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression gathers a series of experts to document, analyze and evaluate the contemporary phenomenon of censorship in digital spaces as well as in print, visual and legacy media. It details the many places and situations where freedom of speech and expression are currently under attack, both on and off-line, in the United States and around the world. It examines the methods and tactics of censorship used by governments, businesses and pressure groups to shut down expression they disdain. We argue that censorship and the loss of free speech is part of a growing anti-democratic movement with grave implications for civil society, human rights and global democracy. Ultimately, with the suppression of dialogue and discourse, fact and documentation, witness and evaluation, the world becomes a much more dangerous place, driven by misinformation and false narratives in counties subject to human rights abuses, and much more. With the incarceration of journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as the world watches, exposing government corruption and brutality has become far more dangerous. Journalists continue to be penalized, incarcerated and killed. From the simple dissemination of information to the suppression of educational materials, and the prosecution of individuals for speech and expression, public discourse has become far more dangerous. For example, in Eastern Europe, the banning of programs in Gender Studies has criminalized education, and in Russia women face prison for disseminating images of body positivity that include drawings of vaginas. In Hungary, artists and playwrights are under attack. Dictators around the globe have shut down, monopolized and otherwise instituted measures to control information, as they lie and mislead their own citizens. India, Egypt, Brazil and Turkey are notable for their attacks on universities, the internet, the news media, social media and civil liberties. This volume also addressed the ways in which critical media literacy and activists can respond to the global crackdown. It investigates the complications brought about by media convergence in the 21st century. We argue that allowing high-tech surveillance and censorship of the internet carries with it far too many negative consequences for freedom of expression and that in many cases, measures attempting to halt fake news as currently formulated will lead inevitably to more censorship. We propose policy alternatives; from economic restructuring of media, to global agreements that cover freedom of the press, to educational strategies aimed at creating a vibrant public citizenry able to take on the challenges of preserving global freedom of expression"-- Provided by publisher.
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