The Freedom to Read
Author: American Library Association
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Library Association
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ganesh Sitaraman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2019-07-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0674987330
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A solution to inequalities—in health care, retirement, education, recreation, communication—is as close as the public library, post office, community pool, or elementary school. The Public Option shows that opportunities to develop reasonably priced government-provided services that coexist with private options are all around us.
Author: Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF)
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2015-07-01
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0838913253
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collecting several key documents and policy statements, this supplement to the ninth edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual traces a history of ALA’s commitment to fighting censorship. An introductory essay by Judith Krug and Candace Morgan, updated by OIF Director Barbara Jones, sketches out an overview of ALA policy on intellectual freedom. An important resource, this volume includes documents which discuss such foundational issues as The Library Bill of RightsProtecting the freedom to readALA’s Code of EthicsHow to respond to challenges and concerns about library resourcesMinors and internet activityMeeting rooms, bulletin boards, and exhibitsCopyrightPrivacy, including the retention of library usage records
Author: Mike Ananny
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0262549662
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist's right to speak but also a public's right to hear. In Networked Press Freedom, Mike Ananny offers a new way to think about freedom of the press in a time when media systems are in fundamental flux. Ananny challenges the idea that press freedom comes only from heroic, lone journalists who speak truth to power. Instead, drawing on journalism studies, institutional sociology, political theory, science and technology studies, and an analysis of ten years of journalism discourse about news and technology, he argues that press freedom emerges from social, technological, institutional, and normative forces that vie for power and fight for visions of democratic life. He shows how dominant, historical ideals of professionalized press freedom often mistook journalistic freedom from constraints for the public's freedom to encounter the rich mix of people and ideas that self-governance requires. Ananny's notion of press freedom ensures not only an individual right to speak, but also a public right to hear. Seeing press freedom as essential for democratic self-governance, Ananny explores what publics need, what kind of free press they should demand, and how today's press freedom emerges from intertwined collections of humans and machines. If someone says, “The public needs a free press,” Ananny urges us to ask in response, “What kind of public, what kind of freedom, and what kind of press?” Answering these questions shows what robust, self-governing publics need to demand of technologists and journalists alike.
Author: Dana Villa
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008-08-11
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 1400837421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The freedom to take part in civic life--whether in the exercise of one's right to vote or congregate and protest--has become increasingly less important to Americans than individual rights and liberties. In Public Freedom, renowned political theorist Dana Villa argues that political freedom is essential to both the preservation of constitutional government and the very substance of American democracy itself. Through intense close readings of theorists such as Hegel, Tocqueville, Mill, Adorno, Arendt, and Foucault, Villa diagnoses the key causes of our democratic discontent and offers solutions to preserve at least some of our democratic hopes. He demonstrates how Americans' preoccupation with a market-based conception of freedom--that is, the personal freedom to choose among different material, moral, and vocational goods--has led to the gradual erosion of meaningful public participation in politics as well as diminished interest in the health of the public realm itself. Villa critically examines, among other topics, the promise and limits of civil society and associational life as sources of democratic renewal; the effects of mass media on the public arena; and the problematic but still necessary ideas of civic competence and democratic maturity. Public Freedom is a passionate and insightful defense of political liberties at a moment in America's history when such freedoms are very much at risk.
Author: Kristin Pekoll
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2019-05-01
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 0838918891
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This resource from Pekoll, Assistant Director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), uses specific case studies to offer practical guidance on safeguarding intellectual freedom related to library displays, programming, and other librarian-created content.
Author: Barbara Dianne Savage
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780807848043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tells how Blacks used radio
Author: Markella B. Rutherford
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011-08-03
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0813552214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. In many ways, today’s parents and children have more freedom than ever before. There is widespread respect for children’s autonomy as distinct individuals, and a broad range of parenting styles are flourishing. Yet it may also be fair to say that there is an unprecedented fear of children’s and parents’ freedom. Dread about Amber Alerts and “stranger danger” have put an end to the unsupervised outdoor play enjoyed by earlier generations of suburban kids. Similarly, fear of bad parenting has not only given rise to a cottage industry of advice books for anxious parents, but has also granted state agencies greater power to police the family. Using popular parenting advice literature as a springboard for a broader sociological analysis of the American family, Markella B. Rutherford explores how our increasingly psychological conception of the family might be jeopardizing our appreciation for parents’ and children’s public lives and civil liberties.
Author: Os Guinness
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0830837671
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recognizing that tyranny takes on secular as well as traditional guises, Os Guinness seeks a return to the first principles of religious and political freedom. Hearkening back to the "soul liberty" of English Puritan Roger Williams, Guinness argues that a society's greatest bulwark against abuse lies in its people's freedom of conscience.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 3732667561
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: State of the Union Addresses by Franklin D. Roosevelt