Syllabus/achievement requirements

JOUR4330: Freedom of expression – discourses, principles and practices.

Reading List:

Winston, Brian (2005): Messages. Free Expression, Media and the west from Gutenberg to Google. London and New York: Routledge. Pp: 430.

Mill, John Stuart (1854) [1975]: On Liberty. London: Penguin. Pp: 187 (avail. online)

Compendium

Barendt, Eric (2005): Freedom of Speech. Oxford: Oxford University Press. #Chapters 1, 12 and 13. Pp 1-38 and 417-474.

Drager, R, & D. L. Dickerson (1999): Freedom of expression in the 21st century. Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press: #Chapter 2: Who controls expression? Pp 31-74.

Lichtenberg, Judith (ed.) (1990): Democracy and the Mass Media. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. # Kelley, David and Donway, Roger: Liberalism and free speech

# Lichtenberg, Judith: Foundations and limits of freedom of the press Pp 66 – 135.

Peters, John Durham (2005): Courting the Abyss. Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. #Introduction and Chapter 5. Pp: 1-28 and 215 – 246.

Total ca 880 pp.

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