Digital Media and Freedom of Expression in the 21st Century

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Covers the extraordinary nature of media in this century. Examines how the media and communications tools of the past 100+ years--telephones, print publications and broadcasting outlets--gave way to the Internet, a radically centralized network of networks that is rapidly re-centralizing. Also explores how the ability to exercise freedom of expression became radically easier in the early days of the Internet, but how that freedom, among others, may be in jeopardy--and, if so, what can be done about that, as individuals and members of communities.