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Analyzing Freedom of Expression Online: Theoretical, Empirical, and Normative Contributions

In: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies
William H. Dutton (ed.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), pp. 441-463

Contains bibliogr. pp. 460-463

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"it is clear that technological innovation will not necessarily enhance freedom of expression; indeed, research from across the many disciplines covered by Internet studies suggests that such fundamental freedoms will be diminished unless we pay more attention to the full array of policy 'games' that shape outcomes in this area, and the normative frameworks of discourse and theory which provide the values ultimately guiding these games." (Conclusion)