Building upon his previous work on the emergence of "literature," Trevor Ross offers a history of how the public function of literature changed as a result of developing press freedoms during the period from 1760 to 1810. Writing in Public examines the laws of copyright, defamat…
Informing the global citizen -- The democratators -- The terror dynamic -- Hostage to the news -- Web wars -- Under surveillance -- Murder central -- Journalists by definition -- News of the future (and the future of news).
Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no long…
"Que nous dit Charlie, alors que se dissipent les ultimes mirages du 11 janvier ? Que le blasphème n'est pas de retour car il ne nous a jamais quittés. Qu'il n'est pas un principe religieux, mais qu'il a toujours été un instrument politique. De Rushdie à Dieudonné, d'Islamabad à…
The editors and the cartoonists -- The path to a showdown -- The diplomatic protest against the cartoons -- Muslims' "day of rage"--Seeking the third way -- Muslim iconoclasm and Christian blasphemy -- Danish intolerance and foreign relations -- The freedom agenda rebound -- Chr…
"On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Five months later, thousands of Muslims inundated the newspaper with outpourings of anger and grief by phone, email, and fax; from Asia to Europe Muslims took to the s…
Edward Snowden's release of classified NSA documents exposed the widespread government practice of mass surveillance in a democratic society. The publication of these documents, facilitated by three journalists, as well as efforts to criminalize the act of being a whistleblower …