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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"obscenity"”.
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Media convergence, obscenity law and the Internet
Digitization and innovation in technology has resulted in a climate of media convergence. Media convergence occurs when elements of previously distinctly separate media forms co-mingle to create new capabilities. Although there is no such thing as complete convergence as of yet, there is probably …
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Vývoj právních, politických a sociálních aspektů obscenity v USA
… právních, politických a sociálních aspektů obscenity" se věnuje přiblížení historie legislativního vývoje základní definice obscenity a právní úpravy v dané oblasti, poukazuje na zdlouhavý a složitý proces formulace této definice a vyzdvihuje v tomto směru stěžejních rozhodnutí Nejvyššího …
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What Are We Protecting Here? The Cultural Construction of Gender in Obscenity Law
… writes out of United States law, in relation to obscenity, the use of protectionist discourse as a reason to censor sexually explicit materials. After Roth as a society, we could not use the protection of women as a reason to censor texts. Culturally, this helped empower women to become agents of …
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The obscenity issue in textbook controversies: a study of value conflicts in education
… of this study was to examine the issue of "obscenity" and its relationship to school books in order to explore the problem of value conflicts in education. Following a discussion of the meaning and importance of values, five areas of controversy were examined in detail: (a) views of the …
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Democracy, pornography, and state power: The case of legislating obscenity in post-communist Russia
This dissertation examines pornography's arrival in Russia (and the government's attempt to deal with it) as an issue of democratization. Russia, now faced with the challenge of becoming a democracy and shaking off an authoritarian past, must face questions of administrative response in many varied …
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"Red alert in cyberspace": A battle over First Amendment privileges on the Internet
… the American courts to specifically define what obscenity is and exactly where it falls within the realm of First Amendment protection. In that chapter, I discuss the theoretical backdrop for the entire obscenity issue. The second chapter focuses on the governmental attempt to regulate Internet …
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Crossing the Line: Censorship, Borders, and the Queer Poetics of Disclosure in English-Canadian Writing, 1967-2000
… (2000) upheld the agency’s power to exclude obscenity, the Court found Customs discriminatory in their preemptive seizures of LGBTTQ material. Extrapolating from this case of the state’s failure to sufficiently ‘read’ queer sex at the border, this dissertation moves beyond studies of how …
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Obscene Publications and ‘Immoral’ Modernities in Shanghai and Colonial Singapore, 1920s–1930s
… intellectual debates over the definition of yin (obscenity) in the Sinophone world, highlighting how these debates were underpinned by the attempt to define a morally sound modernity for China as Chinese intellectuals had to cope with the tensions brought by a scientistic, Western-derived …
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Decision-Making at the Court of Appeals Level Involving Religious Liberty Cases
… cases, criminal cases, sexual discrimination and obscenity cases, but no work has specifically looked at religious liberty cases. This work examines the factors affecting United States Courts of Appeals judges' decision-making in religious liberty cases. I hypothesize that gender, race, religious …
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I Was Thinking Something In The Car, But Now I Forgot
… 3 for pharmacy hours, insert chip, menstrual obscenity, 2 day shipping, airbrushed, display products, interactive advertisement, liability clause, personal branding, disposable fashion, instant gratification.</p>
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Sexual Metaphors in the Fifteenth to Sixteenth Century French Farce
… and 16th century French farce, its metaphorical obscenity has been largely ignored. Not all farces are sexually oriented, but those which are are by far the funniest and their humor stems primarily from the use of metaphor. I have thus systematically gathered evident sexual metaphors from 168 …
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Transformations of photography in Japan (1990-1999)
… photographers interrogated public perceptions of obscenity defined in a specific cultural and historical context. While the sale and distribution of obscene images is prohibited by law, photographers tested the boundaries of permissible and non-permissible forms of representation. The thesis …
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Bodies on the Line: The Politics of Regulating Pornography in Los Angeles
… and a variety of regulatory efforts – including obscenity cases, morally driven anti- pornography coalitions, and vice cops – sought to curtail the production and distribution of pornography in Los Angeles. I describe how porn workers self-consciously coopted regulatory efforts, using them as …
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A NEW ENEMY: AN EXPLORATION OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITHIN LAW ENFORCEMENT'S FIGHT AGAINST CHILD EXPLOITATION
… AI–generated CSAM, forcing reliance on obscenity doctrines ill-suited to GAI. In contrast, the UK’s broader statutory definitions and preventive regulatory model show how AI-generated CSAM can be addressed as a child-protection risk rather than a speech-based exception. The thesis …
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IL CINEMA DI PIER PAOLO PASOLINI SECONDO LO STATO. CENSURA, MAGISTRATURA E PARLAMENTO
… absolved Pasolini from the first accusation of obscenity for his cinema. The last phase presents an increase of tensions, resulting in the activation of all the major institutional areas for the last film.
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Speech and silence: freedom of speech and processes of censorship in early imperial Rome
… offensive subjects - insult, criticism and obscenity - so that offence was minimised and social relations could continue harmoniously. This argument is developed by an exploration of political communication between senate and emperor, especially the importance of the differing relationships …
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Some Controversial Problems Regarding Censorship
… and to prosecute those who violate the anti-obscenity laws. The Congress in recent years has spent months and thousands of dollars investigating the effect of movies, television and comic books on juvenile delinquents--needless to say with a view toward "cleaning-up" (censoring) these areas …
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Confession and intimacy in England, 1851-1913
… divorce law, detective work, legal practice, obscenity legislation and, finally, trance mediumship; the final chapter turns to the Society for Psychical Research, and examines the way secrets took on evidentiary value in what I argue was an intimate science. Overall, this thesis argues that …
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