ERIC BARENDT
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199225811
- eISBN:
- 9780191714139
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199225811.003.00013
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter examines the general treatment of the Internet under constitutional free speech principles, in particular whether it should, like the broadcasting media, be subject to a measure of ...
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This chapter examines the general treatment of the Internet under constitutional free speech principles, in particular whether it should, like the broadcasting media, be subject to a measure of special legal regulation. Another question is whether the Internet should be regarded as a public forum, with the result that limits on access to it in public libraries and universities would be incompatible with freedom of speech, in the absence of compelling reasons for denying access. There are now Supreme Court and other United States decisions on these points, which are considered in this chapter. The regulation of indecent material and child pornography and the application of obscenity laws to pornography are discussed, along with aspects of defamation or libel law, in particular the different treatment of Internet service providers under English and US law. Some of the legal questions posed by the global character of Internet speech are also considered.Less
This chapter examines the general treatment of the Internet under constitutional free speech principles, in particular whether it should, like the broadcasting media, be subject to a measure of special legal regulation. Another question is whether the Internet should be regarded as a public forum, with the result that limits on access to it in public libraries and universities would be incompatible with freedom of speech, in the absence of compelling reasons for denying access. There are now Supreme Court and other United States decisions on these points, which are considered in this chapter. The regulation of indecent material and child pornography and the application of obscenity laws to pornography are discussed, along with aspects of defamation or libel law, in particular the different treatment of Internet service providers under English and US law. Some of the legal questions posed by the global character of Internet speech are also considered.
Wendy Su
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813167060
- eISBN:
- 9780813167077
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813167060.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book explores the global-local interplay through the case study of the People’s Republic of China’s encounter with global Hollywood from the mid-1990s to 2013. It analyzes the changing role of ...
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This book explores the global-local interplay through the case study of the People’s Republic of China’s encounter with global Hollywood from the mid-1990s to 2013. It analyzes the changing role of the Chinese state and its evolving cultural policy; investigates the intertwined relationships among the Chinese state, global capital, and local dynamics; and examines the impact of this encounter on the Chinese film sector’s radical transformation from a Soviet-style planned economy and state ownership model to a market-oriented cultural industry. The book asks how this global-local interplay has defined and will continue to shape China’s arduous path toward cultural modernity in a postsocialist era and how this interplay has shaped the international cultural landscape. The book argues that the Chinese state’s ability to adapt and negotiate can reverse the power relationship in global communications. It concludes that the Chinese state has consolidated its authoritarian power by incorporating both market forces and global capital into the state mechanism and by advancing the cultural industries. The state also exercises a strict monopoly and limits free-market competition in the film industry. Through the conscious construction of a national identity and a “spiritual home” by means of the cultural industries, the state aims to build a “Beijing consensus” that features a combined legacy of socialism, nationalism, collectivism, and Confucianism to challenge the neoliberal “Washington consensus.” A postsocialist “unbalanced modernity” has emerged that works to further the party-state’s use of soft power and nourishes new development models and possibilities for China.Less
This book explores the global-local interplay through the case study of the People’s Republic of China’s encounter with global Hollywood from the mid-1990s to 2013. It analyzes the changing role of the Chinese state and its evolving cultural policy; investigates the intertwined relationships among the Chinese state, global capital, and local dynamics; and examines the impact of this encounter on the Chinese film sector’s radical transformation from a Soviet-style planned economy and state ownership model to a market-oriented cultural industry. The book asks how this global-local interplay has defined and will continue to shape China’s arduous path toward cultural modernity in a postsocialist era and how this interplay has shaped the international cultural landscape. The book argues that the Chinese state’s ability to adapt and negotiate can reverse the power relationship in global communications. It concludes that the Chinese state has consolidated its authoritarian power by incorporating both market forces and global capital into the state mechanism and by advancing the cultural industries. The state also exercises a strict monopoly and limits free-market competition in the film industry. Through the conscious construction of a national identity and a “spiritual home” by means of the cultural industries, the state aims to build a “Beijing consensus” that features a combined legacy of socialism, nationalism, collectivism, and Confucianism to challenge the neoliberal “Washington consensus.” A postsocialist “unbalanced modernity” has emerged that works to further the party-state’s use of soft power and nourishes new development models and possibilities for China.
Andrew Tate
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719074882
- eISBN:
- 9781781701201
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719074882.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This book is a full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists. It explores the prolific first decade-and-a-half of his career, from ...
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This book is a full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists. It explores the prolific first decade-and-a-half of his career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction. Emerging in the last decade of the twentieth century—amidst the absurd contradictions of instantaneous global communication and acute poverty—Coupland's novels, short stories, essays, and visual art have intervened in specifically contemporary debates regarding authenticity, artifice, and art. This book explores Coupland's response, in ground-breaking novels such as Microserfs, Girlfriend in a Coma and Miss Wyoming, to some of the most pressing issues of our times.Less
This book is a full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists. It explores the prolific first decade-and-a-half of his career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction. Emerging in the last decade of the twentieth century—amidst the absurd contradictions of instantaneous global communication and acute poverty—Coupland's novels, short stories, essays, and visual art have intervened in specifically contemporary debates regarding authenticity, artifice, and art. This book explores Coupland's response, in ground-breaking novels such as Microserfs, Girlfriend in a Coma and Miss Wyoming, to some of the most pressing issues of our times.
Luciano Floridi
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199641321
- eISBN:
- 9780191760938
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641321.003.0015
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
In this chapter I consider what happens to artificial agents (including business agents) and distributed morality when the infosphere becomes a globalised environment. I argue that IE can provide a ...
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In this chapter I consider what happens to artificial agents (including business agents) and distributed morality when the infosphere becomes a globalised environment. I argue that IE can provide a successful approach for coping with the challenges posed by our increasingly globalized and information-based reality. After a brief review of some of the most fundamental transformations brought about by the phenomenon of globalization, I distinguish between two ways of understanding global information ethics: as an ethics of global communication or as a global-information ethics. I then argue that cross-cultural, successful interactions among micro and macro agents call for a high level of successful communication, that the latter requires a shared ontology friendly towards the implementation of moral actions, and that this is provided by IE. There follows an account of ontic trust, the hypothetical pact among all agents and patients presupposed by IE.Less
In this chapter I consider what happens to artificial agents (including business agents) and distributed morality when the infosphere becomes a globalised environment. I argue that IE can provide a successful approach for coping with the challenges posed by our increasingly globalized and information-based reality. After a brief review of some of the most fundamental transformations brought about by the phenomenon of globalization, I distinguish between two ways of understanding global information ethics: as an ethics of global communication or as a global-information ethics. I then argue that cross-cultural, successful interactions among micro and macro agents call for a high level of successful communication, that the latter requires a shared ontology friendly towards the implementation of moral actions, and that this is provided by IE. There follows an account of ontic trust, the hypothetical pact among all agents and patients presupposed by IE.
Paul Shrivastava, William Gruver, and Matt Statler
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804770095
- eISBN:
- 9780804778640
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804770095.003.0009
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies
Examining lessons from the past thirty years of research on technological crisis management, this chapter shows parallels and similarities in technological and financial crisis antecedent conditions, ...
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Examining lessons from the past thirty years of research on technological crisis management, this chapter shows parallels and similarities in technological and financial crisis antecedent conditions, crisis causes, and prevention and management strategies to the current global financial crisis. It suggests policies for mitigating the impacts of financial crisis, including long-term planning for managing the crisis process, regulating risk and leverage, building surveillance systems, improving global communications, and redesigning a new sustainable global economic order.Less
Examining lessons from the past thirty years of research on technological crisis management, this chapter shows parallels and similarities in technological and financial crisis antecedent conditions, crisis causes, and prevention and management strategies to the current global financial crisis. It suggests policies for mitigating the impacts of financial crisis, including long-term planning for managing the crisis process, regulating risk and leverage, building surveillance systems, improving global communications, and redesigning a new sustainable global economic order.
Ravi Sundaram
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814772805
- eISBN:
- 9780814723562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814772805.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
This chapter stresses the importance of noticing not just the global communication flows made possible by new media but also recognizing that these are increasingly challenging older ideas of ...
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This chapter stresses the importance of noticing not just the global communication flows made possible by new media but also recognizing that these are increasingly challenging older ideas of property rights. Backed by the United States and other states, some firms brand all “unauthorized” copying of “intellectual property” as piracy. At the same time, many corporations are remaking media in order to try to maintain a system based on private property—relying on dedicated applications rather than more open Internet access, for example. And of course, some of the same technologies that shape the circulation of music and videos are also at work remaking the flows of information and money in global capitalism—in both its legal and formal and its illicit, often offshore varieties. Struggles between ownership and access affect a wide range of technologies, forms of cultural production, and products of scientific creativity.Less
This chapter stresses the importance of noticing not just the global communication flows made possible by new media but also recognizing that these are increasingly challenging older ideas of property rights. Backed by the United States and other states, some firms brand all “unauthorized” copying of “intellectual property” as piracy. At the same time, many corporations are remaking media in order to try to maintain a system based on private property—relying on dedicated applications rather than more open Internet access, for example. And of course, some of the same technologies that shape the circulation of music and videos are also at work remaking the flows of information and money in global capitalism—in both its legal and formal and its illicit, often offshore varieties. Struggles between ownership and access affect a wide range of technologies, forms of cultural production, and products of scientific creativity.
Marc Redfield
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823231232
- eISBN:
- 9780823241118
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823231232.003.0013
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Many aspects like romanticism, human rights, revolution, and sovereignty declared a war on terror that we inherit as part of modernity. This inheritance is an uncertain one because we will never ...
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Many aspects like romanticism, human rights, revolution, and sovereignty declared a war on terror that we inherit as part of modernity. This inheritance is an uncertain one because we will never predict the future and the certainty of this declaration's locutionary shape and illocutionary is out of reach. And this declaration conveys absolute war, for it could only be performed by the executive officer of a superpower in an era of geopolitical strategizing and global communication. The declaration on of war on terror may thus be taken not just as one aspect of the never-tightening regime of modern technics but as the very motto of techno-metaphysical domination. The war on terror, like everything else, is forgettable and it is not so less for having marshaled the language of absolute.Less
Many aspects like romanticism, human rights, revolution, and sovereignty declared a war on terror that we inherit as part of modernity. This inheritance is an uncertain one because we will never predict the future and the certainty of this declaration's locutionary shape and illocutionary is out of reach. And this declaration conveys absolute war, for it could only be performed by the executive officer of a superpower in an era of geopolitical strategizing and global communication. The declaration on of war on terror may thus be taken not just as one aspect of the never-tightening regime of modern technics but as the very motto of techno-metaphysical domination. The war on terror, like everything else, is forgettable and it is not so less for having marshaled the language of absolute.
Daniel Speich Chassé
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781529213317
- eISBN:
- 9781529213355
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529213317.003.0014
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter ventures into the technical basis of global sociability from a historical perspective, which renders the nation an effect of global communication rather than an agent. It examines the ...
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This chapter ventures into the technical basis of global sociability from a historical perspective, which renders the nation an effect of global communication rather than an agent. It examines the global numerical statistics on territories, populations, and economic potentials over the past centuries that have created a vast political space in which the nation features as a result. It also elaborates how numbers rule the world in manifold comparative frameworks by setting norms and designing communicative devices. The chapter suggests the notion of technical internationalism as a general framework for the analysis of certain governing organs. It argues that structural processes of a more anonymous nature constitute a global communicative convergence that concerns social change and were considered agents of change in their own right.Less
This chapter ventures into the technical basis of global sociability from a historical perspective, which renders the nation an effect of global communication rather than an agent. It examines the global numerical statistics on territories, populations, and economic potentials over the past centuries that have created a vast political space in which the nation features as a result. It also elaborates how numbers rule the world in manifold comparative frameworks by setting norms and designing communicative devices. The chapter suggests the notion of technical internationalism as a general framework for the analysis of certain governing organs. It argues that structural processes of a more anonymous nature constitute a global communicative convergence that concerns social change and were considered agents of change in their own right.
Zoltán Biedermann
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198823391
- eISBN:
- 9780191862106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198823391.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History
The clash of legal and political cultures that unfolded as the idea of conquest began to materialize is the subject of Chapter 7. The main question addressed is whether the new policy of conquest ...
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The clash of legal and political cultures that unfolded as the idea of conquest began to materialize is the subject of Chapter 7. The main question addressed is whether the new policy of conquest supported by the Habsburg administration can be explained in terms of ‘Spanish influence’ on the Portuguese imperial apparatus. It is argued that the Iberian Union of crowns served as an opportunity for Portuguese reformists to change their own empire. Although orders for the conquest of Ceylon were issued in Madrid, an intricate web of communications spanning half the globe was ultimately a more powerful source of political change than any of the central authorities of the Catholic Monarchy. Emphasis is still placed on the commonalities of Iberian and Lankan political culture, on the possibilities of joint empire-building as well as the impossibilities.Less
The clash of legal and political cultures that unfolded as the idea of conquest began to materialize is the subject of Chapter 7. The main question addressed is whether the new policy of conquest supported by the Habsburg administration can be explained in terms of ‘Spanish influence’ on the Portuguese imperial apparatus. It is argued that the Iberian Union of crowns served as an opportunity for Portuguese reformists to change their own empire. Although orders for the conquest of Ceylon were issued in Madrid, an intricate web of communications spanning half the globe was ultimately a more powerful source of political change than any of the central authorities of the Catholic Monarchy. Emphasis is still placed on the commonalities of Iberian and Lankan political culture, on the possibilities of joint empire-building as well as the impossibilities.
Zoltán Biedermann
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198823391
- eISBN:
- 9780191862106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198823391.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History
Chapter 6 analyses the transformations that paved the way, in the 1580s and 1590s, for a policy turn towards an officially sanctioned Iberian conquest of Ceylon. The 1580 donation of Kōṭṭe to the ...
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Chapter 6 analyses the transformations that paved the way, in the 1580s and 1590s, for a policy turn towards an officially sanctioned Iberian conquest of Ceylon. The 1580 donation of Kōṭṭe to the Portuguese crown, which would itself fall into Habsburg hands soon after, emerges as a key moment along with the dramatic military and political developments in other parts of the island. The growth and collapse of the rival empire of Sītāvaka in the interior is shown to have triggered perceptions of opportunity among Portuguese leaders, but wider connections were also essential for change to occur. Crucial new links emerged between Colombo, Malacca, Manila, and Madrid, the imperial capital where, ultimately, conquest orders were issued. Even so, the local initiatives of Luso-Lankan and Sinhalese war-makers remained a driving force.Less
Chapter 6 analyses the transformations that paved the way, in the 1580s and 1590s, for a policy turn towards an officially sanctioned Iberian conquest of Ceylon. The 1580 donation of Kōṭṭe to the Portuguese crown, which would itself fall into Habsburg hands soon after, emerges as a key moment along with the dramatic military and political developments in other parts of the island. The growth and collapse of the rival empire of Sītāvaka in the interior is shown to have triggered perceptions of opportunity among Portuguese leaders, but wider connections were also essential for change to occur. Crucial new links emerged between Colombo, Malacca, Manila, and Madrid, the imperial capital where, ultimately, conquest orders were issued. Even so, the local initiatives of Luso-Lankan and Sinhalese war-makers remained a driving force.
