Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free ExpressionRobert Atkins, Svetlana Mintcheva If your idea of censorship is an anonymous bureaucrat in a government office exercising prudish control over "offensive" art and speech, wake up and smell the conglomeration. Censorship today is just as likely to be the result of a market force or a bandwidth monopoly as a line edit or the covering of a nude sculpture, and the current system of new technologies and economic arrangements has subtle, built-in mechanisms for suppressing free expression as powerful as any known in other centuries. In Censoring Culture, the nationally known author of the ArtSpeak books and the head of the National Coalition Against Censorship's Arts Program bring together the latest thinking from art historians, cultural theorists, legal scholars, and psychoanalysts, as well as first-person accounts by artists and advocates, to give us a comprehensive understanding of censorship in a new century. |
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... moral panic as a way of explaining what is at stake in the protests . Moral panic is a sociological construct devel- oped by British academics in the 1960s to address a media - facilated fear of such perceived societal threats as the ...
... moral panics makes it ex- tremely difficult to compare press hysteria and government inaction , which may well turn out to be closely related.5 Accepting the limited power of analyses of moral panic ... moral panic , and one that is subject ...
... moral panic reflex by forging a series of linkages between child sexual assault and several key themes : the individualised , pathological type " the paedophile " ; the extra - familial networks of these otherwise remote , isolated ...
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ECONOMICS | 1 |
The MilitaryIndustrial Complex Is Dead Long Live | 6 |
Private Censorship Corporate Power | 15 |
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