Narain D. Batra

The First Freedoms and America's Culture of Innovation

The Constitutional Foundations of the Aspirational Society

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Produktbeschreibung

The First Freedoms and the American Culture of Innovation is a thorough examination of the history of American innovation and how our society could not have progressed as far and as fast as it did without its fundamental freedoms. Batra concludes that free speech is the energy that drives American aspiration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781442225879
• ISBN-10: 1442225874
• Artikelnr.: 38475883

Autorenporträt

Narain D. Batra is professor of communications at Norwich University, Vermont, where he teaches media law, ethics, television criticism, and social media and the Internet.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE HOW THE BOOK WAS BORN Prometheus and Confucius Human Rights and
Julian Assange ACKNOWLEDGMENT INTRODUCTION THE MAKING OF THE ASPIRATIONAL
SOCIETY Promethean Possibilities CHAPTER ONE TURBULENCE AND HARMONY The
Cauldron Of Creativity Pragmatism Pursuing The Freedom Trail Wherever It
Leads Court Ruling But Thank God: For Every Jerry Falwell There's Larry
Flynt Crude And Outrageous Speech As Corrective The First Amendment Is More
Than Free Speech Historians Need Lesson Doubtfully Trusting How Unscripted
Life Enables Innovative Behavior State of Paranoia How The First Amendment
Creates Mongrelized Offspring Creative Disequilibrium Warning When US
Supreme Court Woke Up Freedom From Irrational Fear Tyranny Of
Self-Censorship CHAPTER TWO HOW FREE SPEECH STIMULATES INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR
The Re-Making Of Motherhood And Other Wonders Right Of Procreation
Mitigating Reproductive Constraints Seeking Answers Freedom From Revealed
Truth Eternal Optimism For Making The World A Better Place Sustainable
Innovation Civic Participation Openness makes Americans inventive Global
Brain-Grid Emerging CHAPTER THREE TELLING STORIES TO A HYPER-CONNECTED
WORLD A Vigorous and Wide Open Newsosphere Unfiltered and Unbridled
Harassment A Hazardous Vocation Balancing Competing Interests Trust, But
Verify Outrageously Transparent Continuum of the Fake and the Real
Unreliable Sources News: Simulation and dissimulation Dark Journalism
Social Media and Online Civic journalism Empowering Citizen Journalists
Exaggerated Fears News Media and Innovation Exceptional The Power of Weak
Ties Building Trust in Social Networks Can Social Networking Create Social
Capital Despite Weak Ties? WikiLeaks' Challenge Making Sense New Challenges
CHAPTER FOUR COMMERCIAL SPEECH AND INNOVATION The Soft Power of
Aspirational Brands Status Change Challenging Authority Commercial Speech
and the Public Interest Language and Innovation Fired Up and Get Going
Beautiful Deceptions Turning Ideas Into Assets Culture of Aspiration and
the Arab Street Mashing Up Business Methods Patenting Corporate Speech
CHAPTER FIVE FREE PRESS AND MARKETPLACE FUNDAMENTALISM The Dark Side of the
Aspirational Society Sources of Corruption Insatiable at the Top Hit the
Numbers or You are Out The Moral Neutrality of Numbers When Drug Companies
Sell Snake Oil Free Press and Corporate Behavior Who Do You Call When
Nothing Works? CHAPTER SIX CHINA'S AUTHORITARIANISM CHALLENGES AMERICAN
EXCEPTIONALISM The Roar of the Dragon Vicious Capitalist Energy Extreme
Nationalism No Gratitude Pacific Ocean Issue Can China Challenge America
Without Embracing the First Freedoms? Pragmatism Dissidents in the Digital
Age Human Rights Virtual Struggle Cyber Resistance The Persistence of
China's Dissenters Will Information Be Free in China? Abundance Without
Freedom Half-hearted Freedom The Future Is Dragon. Do You Hear It Coming?
Points of Light Innovation in a Closed Society CHAPTER SEVEN POLITICAL
INNOVATIONS OF THE ASPIRATIONAL SOCIETY To Live And Die In Freedom That's
America But What About The Rest Of The World? The Decider-Warrior President
War Games and Diplomacy Awesome Temptations of Neo-Imperialism Beware the
Power of the Unexpected Building Pillars of Freedom on Soft Power How Does
Soft Power Arise? The First Amendment and the Aspirational Society Just and
Meritorious Society The Flight Of The Black Swan To The White House The
Aspirational Society Must Not Shrug Empathy and Imperialism Propaganda
CONCLUSION FREE SPEECH AS ENERGY Pushing the Boundaries of Permissible
Thought Dilemma Dependent Origination of the Aspirational Society NOTES
INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR