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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Freedom of speech"”.
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Freedom of speech in wartime in the United States.
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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The Price of Dissent: Freedom of Speech and Arkansas Criminal Anarchy Arrests
… fanatical patriotism and an alleged threat of anarchy that gripped a nation with fear. Paranoia about communists, Socialists, and anarchists divided the country and resulted in many states, including Arkansas, passing criminal anarchy laws. Since a majority of those accused of anti-American …
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Speech and silence: freedom of speech and processes of censorship in early imperial Rome
This thesis is concerned with freedom of speech in early imperial Rome. The creation of the principate meant that the emperor held absolute power based on military force, but there is no comprehensive survey of how this affected freedom of speech. This study therefore examines relevant primary …
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"Freedom of Speech and Religion?": Psychological Intelligence that Overthrew a Guatemalan Government, 1952-1954
… in Guatemala that forced the resignation of democratically-elected President Jacobo Arbenz. Since then, scholars have written a wide array of books and articles pertaining to the subject. While most authors have focused attention on who was to blame for the coup, this research project …
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The Roberts Court Constitution of Freedom of Speech: Preferences, Principles, and the Study of Supreme Court Decision-making
<p>Since the appointment of Chief Justice G. Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court, political scientists and legal scholars have assessed the Court’s behavior in a diverse array of cases and issue areas, including those touching on federalism, reproductive rights, voting rights, and economic liberty …
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Freedom of speech as a universal value (a comparative approach from international human rights law, the first amendment, and Islamic law)
The issue of universalism in the human right of freedom of speech is one of several that continue to be debated among Muslims and Westerners. As evidence of incompatibility of Islamic law with the international law of freedom of speech, Westerners, on the basis of Muslims' reactions towards the …
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Communicative freedom in a digital democracy: political and economic resistance to freedom of speech and the rise of digital activism in South Africa
… and economic resistance to communicative freedom in South Africa. Through a mixed methodology of Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics analysis, this dissertation seeks to explore how our understanding of democracy is being transformed as we move from a physical, …
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Religiosity, Freedom of Expression and Lebanon and Morocco
… the relationship between religiosity and freedom of speech. While a growing body of research advances the now established notion that Islam as a religion in practice at the individual level is compatible with democracy, this work attempts a more nuanced analysis at the individual level …
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Justifying Another’s Suppressed Prejudice: Racist Speech and Freedom of Expression
… is that they violate the expresser’s right to freedom of speech. Seven studies investigate my hypothesis that freedom of speech can be used as a justification for another’s suppressed prejudice. Study 1 examines the relationship between anti-Black prejudice and freedom of speech relevance in …
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Free press, torture and the way forward: one journalist's story of reporting in Ethiopia's totalitarian regime
… is a qualitative, ethnographic case study of the life of Adera Tessaye', a prominent Ethiopian journalist who fled political persecution in Ethiopia in 2008 and was granted refugee status in the U.S. in 2012. The goal of this thesis is to tell the story of Tessaye's life and consider it in …
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Defamation, the right to freedom of expression and libel reform in the UK: A comparative analysis of legal regulation and jurisprudence in the UK, the United States of America, Germany, and the European Court of Human Rights
Free speech advocates had long argued that the UK’s common law on defamation was too claimant friendly and as such either potentially or actually chilled free speech. The phenomenon of libel tourism to the UK, illustrated by several high profile cases and arguably the result of the claimant …
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Let's All Go to the Movies
… the stars! Welcome to this grand illusion! All of it's yours. New Urbanism. Hollywood thinks you're stupid. Scientology. Retro-futurism. Taking back color from toiletries. Personal politics. Cutting off the legs of the bioscopes. The architecture of Fun. The death of Entertainment. Freedom of …
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Bangladeshi Political Cartoons as Visual Rhetoric in the Context of Anti-Free Speech Laws
Guided by Sonja Foss' (2005) theory of visual rhetoric, this thesis is an exploration of political cartoons from Bangladesh, published between October 2016 - October 2020. The study is framed by the Digital Security Act (DSA), an anti-freedom of speech law enacted by the ruling Awami League …
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The interest of the state: a view from the judiciary
The problem of this research study was to analyze decisions of the Supreme Court regarding expressions of The State's interest in education. The study focused on decisions of the Supreme Court which have been based on the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech involving elementary and …
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Responsabilidad Civil derivada de la actividad periodística
… divulga sobre persona determinada, información ofensiva, inexacta, no verificada, o información veraz pero vejatoria, o comentarios injuriosos difamantes o mordaces, vulnerando los derechos de la personalidad, bajo el escudo de la libertad de expresión o del derecho de la información, ejercidos …
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Critiquing the UK Judiciary's Response to Article 10 Post-HRA: Undervaluing the Right to Freedom of Expression?
The arrival of the Human Rights Act 1998 (the “HRA”) stimulated much speculation as to the effect that the Act would have on judicial approaches to the relationship between the individual and State. In particular, the Act generated expectations that it would raise rights consciousness within …
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Digital Surveillance and Social Justice in Nigeria: A study of New Media Regulations
This thesis reveals the social implication of digital surveillance in the Nigeria polity, using Faircloughian Critical Discourse Analysis as a method of analysing data with a transdisciplinary framework of political economy discourse, a theory of the state and a Critical Discourse Analysis. …
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CONSTITUTING THE POLITICAL: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON POLITICAL LIBERALISM
… My hypothesis is that a re-articulation of the main issues in transcendental phenomenology as it relates to social philosophy, first in a genetic sense (as developed by Alfred Schutz), but also in a generative context (as developed by Bernhard Waldenfels), provides us with a …
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An Investigation of the Beginning Speech Course in Missouri: What It Is in Theory and Practice
It was the purpose of this study to discover what should be included in the curriculum of the beginning speech course on the high school level in the state of Missouri; (1) to do research to determine what journal writers contend should be taught; (2) to prepare a questionnaire to determine what …
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L'intelligenza artificiale come nuova frontiera dei diritti fondamentali
… to artificial intelligence from the point of view of fundamental rights. The first part gives a general introduction on the technical characteristics of artificial intelligence, its historical development and the ethical, philosophical and legal debate about it. The second part analyses the …
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