ERIC Number: ED258294
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985
Pages: 159
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Free Speech Yearbook 1984. Volume 23.
Ewbank, Henry L., Ed.
A collection of 12 articles, this yearbook focuses on freedom of speech and censorship. The topics covered include (1) common law tort and contract erosion of the at will rule, (2) the Supreme Court and the First Amendment in 1983-1984, (3) a phenomenological analysis of the First Amendment and the issue of obscenity, (4) John Milton's attack on prior restraint in "Areopagitica," (5) the information society as a new threat to freedom of speech, (6) Plato and the totalitarian state, (7) the rationale and development of an employee rights scale, (8) the Massachusetts Bay Colony and its problems with convenant and rhetorical deviance, (9) the regulation of pornography in the new media, (10) perspectives on pornography and free speech, (11) x-rated political broadcasting, and (12) freedom of speech and the Federal Election Campaign Act. (EL)
Descriptors: Censorship, Court Litigation, Employees, Freedom of Speech, Legal Problems, Pornography, Publications, Speech Communication
Speech Communication Association, 5105 Blacklick Rd., Suite E, Annandale, VA 22003 ($7.00, prepaid).
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Speech Communication Association, Annandale, VA. Commission on Freedom of Speech.
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: First Amendment
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