Teresa M. Bejan on social media and communication

Dr Teresa M. Bejan, Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford, discusses the role of social media in shaping twenty-first century communication, and the effect of the Internet on ‘mere civility’.

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Free Speech Debate co-authors an Oxford-Stanford report on Facebook.
 ‘Lenin-fall’: free speech and the politics of memory in Ukraine
O.T. Jones argues that the Ukrainian state should not restrict open historical debate but use its 'expressive' powers to foster a nuanced understanding of the past.
 Are you sitting comfortably? How safe spaces became dangerous
We must distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate safe spaces, argues Eric Heinze.
 Don’t blame news polarisation on the internet…it’s not the technology, stupid!
The internet does not guarantee polarised news, argues Richard Fletcher.
 Bridging the deep digital divide in India
Only 17% of rural India has internet access. But citizen journalism is giving voice to minorities says Arpita Biswas.
 Russia: ‘The Church has an enemy in every home.’ It’s television.
Helen Haft explains how the Orthodox Church has eroded freedom of the media and lobbied for the 2013 law against offending religious feelings.
 Are we losing the media we need for democracy?
Timothy Garton Ash discusses the importance of and whether we are losing the media for democracy at the General Editors Network Summit 2017 in Vienna.
 The internet alone will not set Africa free
Iginio Gagliardone explores the surprising technopolitics of two competing visions of the internet, US and Chinese, in Ethiopia.
 Freedom of speech in Japan and the Designated Secrets Law
Arthur Stockwin explains the four main areas where free speech is under threat in Japan.
 Israel, no-platforming – and why there’s no such thing as ‘narrow exceptions’ to campus free speech
Eric Heinze argues that it is contradictory to the principles of free speech to criticise the Israeli ambassador to Britain online and then no-platform him at a university talk.
 Should I go to that conference in Hungary?
Boycotts betray free enquiry, but Viktor Orbán’s moves against the Central European University at least make them worth debating, says Eric Heinze
 Silencing 140 characters: free expression and the internet in the Gulf
A seminar run by the University of Oxford's Middle East Centre and Free Speech Debate on Free Expression in the Gulf, with Maryam al-Khawaja (Gulf Centre for Human Rights), Toby Matthieson (St. Anthony's College) and Nicholas McGeehan (Middle East Researcher, Human Rights Watch). Chaired by Timothy Garton Ash

Free Speech Debate is a research project of the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom at St Antony's College in the University of Oxford. www.freespeechdebate.ox.ac.uk

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Glasnost! Nine ways Facebook can make itself a better forum for free speech and democracy

‘Lenin-fall’: free speech and the politics of memory in Ukraine

Are you sitting comfortably? How safe spaces became dangerous

Don’t blame news polarisation on the internet…it’s not the technology, stupid!

Bridging the deep digital divide in India

Russia: ‘The Church has an enemy in every home.’ It’s television.

Are we losing the media we need for democracy?

The internet alone will not set Africa free

Freedom of speech in Japan and the Designated Secrets Law

Israel, no-platforming – and why there’s no such thing as ‘narrow exceptions’ to campus free speech

Should I go to that conference in Hungary?

Silencing 140 characters: free expression and the internet in the Gulf

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