Speech and society in turbulent times freedom of expression in comparative perspective

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Speech and society in comparative perspective / Monroe Price and Nicole Stremlau -- Islam, human rights and duties and the new Information technologies / Ali Allawai -- Closure, strategic communications and international norms / Monroe Price -- Confucian speech and its challenge to the western theory of deliberative democracy / Baogang He -- From Gandhi to Modi : institutions and technologies of speech and symbolism in India / William Gould -- The making of a media system in Uganda : a new vision and a revolutionary origin / Nicole Stremlau -- Neoliberal "good governance" in lieu of rights : Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore experiment / Cherian George -- Atatürk and contemporary speech lessons from the late Ottoman and early republican era / Altug Akin -- Jewish law and ethics in the digital era / Yoel Cohen -- Where should speech be free? : placing liberal theories of free speech in a wider context / Richard Danbury -- The history, philosophy and law of free expression in the United States : implications for the digital age / Stephen M. Feldman -- The evolution of a Russian concept of free speech / Elena Sherstoboeva -- Free speech, traditional values and Hinduism in the Internet age / Rohit Chopra -- Cyber-Leninism : the political culture of the Chinese Internet / Rogier Creemers -- Speech in and out of digital France / Julien Mailland -- Strategies and tactics : re-shaping the Internet in Ethiopia / Iginio Gagliardone -- Philosophies and principles in turbulent times / Monroe Price and Nicole Stremlau.