Madison or Madison Avenue?: corporate challenges facing the liberal protection of free speech and personal autonomy in the mass media

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dc.contributor.advisorBrake, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorHughes, Sean Robert
dc.date.accessioned2005-08-16T17:03:28Z
dc.date.available2005-08-16T17:03:28Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 107-110en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores whether laissez-faire regulation of the content of mass media communications protects the sort of free speech required for liberal democratic government. I argue that policies derived from traditional interpretations of liberal theory, which favour barring state activism, no longer protect the dissemination of a plurality of views. I examine the legal concept of corporate personhood as connected to free speech and argue that it is inappropriate in itself, and damaging to liberal democracy in its consequences. I also argue that the content of speech stemming from laissez-faire regulatory policies inhibits autonomy, understood as a capacity and condition. My argument shows that state non-intervention in the regulation of the content of speech does not promote the goals which some proponents of this approach claim are advanced, and there is reason to seek new ways to promote liberal freedom of speech.en
dc.format.extentxvi, 110 leaves ; 30 cm.en
dc.identifier.citationHughes, S. R. (2004). Madison or Madison Avenue?: corporate challenges facing the liberal protection of free speech and personal autonomy in the mass media (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/19518en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/19518
dc.identifier.isbn0612976963en
dc.identifier.lccAC1 .T484 2004 H84en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/41614
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
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dc.titleMadison or Madison Avenue?: corporate challenges facing the liberal protection of free speech and personal autonomy in the mass media
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplinePhilosophy
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)
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ucalgary.thesis.accessionTheses Collection 58.002:Box 1507 520492024
ucalgary.thesis.notesUARCen
ucalgary.thesis.uarcreleaseyen
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