Freedom of Expression and New Information Technologies

by Pare, Michele

• ISBN13: 9782922417050
• ISBN10: 2922417050
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: IQ Collectif

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 5
Preface	p. 7
Foreword	p. 9
Biographical Notes	p. 11
New Information Technologies: Impact and Potential	p. 21
New Media and Human Rights	p. 23
Information at thecore	p. 24
A new relationship with time and space	p. 25
New fields of campaign	p. 25
Facts behind the facts	p. 26
New relationship with the media	p. 27
Cybercensorship	p. 28
Prospects	p. 29
Cyberworld frontiers	p. 29
What to do?	p. 30
Contributing to the quality of journalism	p. 31
Closing thoughts	p. 31
Safeguarding Humankind Against the Pursuit of False Gods: A Sociological Perspective on the History of Censorship	p. 33
Censorship in history: From book-burning to the internet-ratings systems	p. 35
Filtering and blocking	p. 37
Book-burning	p. 40
Freedom of Expression and the Virtual Community	p. 43
Geography of the net	p. 44
Netizens and virtual communities	p. 45
The three propositions	p. 47
The nature and purpose of virtual communities	p. 48
Exploring the virtual city in cyberspace	p. 49
Nine principles for making virtual communities work	p. 51
Radical pluralism	p. 54
Direct Democracy: The Role of Electronic Communication Forums for a New Public in the Information Society	p. 55
Information, communication, media, and democracy	p. 57
Electronic communication forums	p. 58
Electronic communication forums in the context of the 1998 federal election in Germany	p. 62
The relevance of electronic communication forums for direct democracy	p. 63
Telecomputer Art: Democratizing the Creator/Spectator Frontier	p. 65
The esthetic globalization of conscience	p. 66
The transformation hypothesis	p. 67
Art for whom?	p. 68
The advent of digital expression	p. 70
Networks and the reconstruction of sociocultural identities	p. 72
The International Federation of Journalists and the Digital Revolution: Interests and Responsibilities	p. 75
Challenges by new information technologies to the international federation of journalists	p. 76
Technological mutations and political implications	p. 80
Planning the direct response: Tools developed by the [superscript IFJ]	p. 83
Conclusion	p. 85
Uses and Abuses of New Technology: Some Legislative Approaches	p. 87
Electronic Networks and Human Rights	p. 89
New partners	p. 91
The rights of electronic citizens	p. 93
Freedom of Expression and Law	p. 95
The main components of freedom of expression	p. 96
The recognition of the freedom of expression	p. 97
The reality of the guarantees of freedom of expression	p. 103
The determination of the meaning	p. 106
The corollaries of freedom of expression	p. 108
Privacy: Our Future Under Close Surveillance	p. 113
Information banks	p. 114
Invisible fingerprints	p. 115
The personal information market	p. 116
Intelligent software	p. 118
The perils of information technology	p. 119
Ethics, laws, and techniques	p. 120
Regulation of Freedom of Expression on the Internet: The Roles of Law and of the State	p. 123
Legal regulation: Overview	p. 124
Civil legal control: The law of defamation and the internet	p. 126
Legal control of internet content	p. 132
The way forward?	p. 138
Online Pornography: Balancing Freedom of Expression and Community Values in Practice	p. 141
Pornography goes online	p. 142
Pornography succeeds online	p. 143
International control of online pornography	p. 148
Conclusion	p. 154
Reports from the Field	p. 157
New Information and Communication Technologies: Freeing Information Flows or Widening South-North Gaps?	p. 159
The new information and communication technologies	p. 159
The south's access	p. 162
Controlling access	p. 163
Forced entry by transnational media conglomerates	p. 164
Results of forced entry	p. 165
South-north flows	p. 166
Competing for control of the digital frontiers	p. 167
Attempting to control the source of a new nightmare	p. 169
Media in the Information Highway: Freedom of Expression in the Age of Global Communication1	p. 171
Transnational media	p. 173
The role of international media	p. 174
Ethnicity in the global village	p. 178
International agreements	p. 180
Trips	p. 182
Market competition	p. 184
Generic cultural products	p. 185
Indonesians Use the Net to Fight Censorship	p. 187
Political background	p. 188
Official censorship and the internet	p. 189
Freedom of Expression, Public Services, and Technologies for Democratic and Healthy Societies: A Lithuanian Perspective	p. 193
What an information society should not be	p. 194
Convergence and the internet	p. 195
Hastening the development of democracy	p. 196
The internet as a liberating force, and the key to success in the 21st century	p. 197
Dangers to avoid	p. 198
Information society policy	p. 200
Culture and Entropy at the Interface of Freedom of Expression and the New Communications Technologies	p. 201
The low-definition future	p. 202
Getting around the censor	p. 204
Political conformity and reality	p. 205
Teaching with new technologies	p. 206
Knowing how to experiment	p. 208
The Journalistic Experience in Latin America	p. 211
Particularities	p. 212
Technological advances	p. 214
Towards globalization	p. 216
The neoliberal consensus	p. 217
Direct Broadcast Technology: A Middle-Eastern Perspective on a New Domain of Conflict	p. 221
Access to a little media freedom	p. 222
Direct broadcasting and state monopoly	p. 225
Viewers and the direct broadcast system	p. 226
Long- and short-term effects	p. 228
Audience leads the media	p. 229
Government reactions	p. 230
New media and democratic values	p. 231
Misadventures on the Infobahn: Information Technology in a Southern Context	p. 233
Global information infrastructure	p. 234
Information 'haves', information 'have-nots'	p. 235
Technology and truth	p. 237
Information feast and famine	p. 238
Access to Information, Universal Service, and Globalization: South Africa in the African Context of Information Technology	p. 241
De-regulation or re-regulation? Telecommunications, Africa, and South Africa	p. 243
Nation-building and globalization in South Africa's telecommunications policy	p. 244
Universal access and privatization: A marriage made in heaven or hell?	p. 248
The globalization of telecommunication and some challenges for freedom of expression	p. 249
New Communication Technologies and Freedom of Expression: Radio and Television	p. 255
A broadening of freedom	p. 256
Media independence	p. 257
Genuine pluralism	p. 259
Added cultural value	p. 261
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