Building and Recognizing Communication Rights

The 2003 Graham Spry Memorial Lecture: Toward a Human Right to Communicate?
Adapting human rights standards to the new reality of global interactive technologies and the emergence of networking in many social domains.

by Cees J. Hamelink
2004
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In Search of the Talkative Public: Media, Deliberative Democracy and Civic Culture
The aim of the article is to probe the notion of deliberative democracy by framing it in ways that may render it more useful for both theoretical and empirical work.

by Peter Dahlgren
2002
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Reaching the unreached
Information and communication technologies can form an integral component of developmental projects, but the people's needs and the best means to satisfy them should determine the whole programme.

by Subbiah Arunachalam
2002
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Communication is Inscribed in Human Nature: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Right to Communicate
Communication is an essential human need and a fundamental social necessity. Its central core is the philosophical notion of intersubjectivity, which implies communication in freedom, equality and solidarity.

by Michael Traber
1999
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Communication as a Human Need and Human Right

This article first explains the origin of the concept of communication as a right, referring to its main articulation in the MacBride Report and through debate in UNESCO, concluding by highlighting some difficulties which need to be taken up.

by Michael Traber
1992
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Communication rights enable all people everywhere to express themselves individually and collectively by all means of communication. They are vital to full participation in society and are, therefore, universal human rights belonging to every man, woman, and child.

Building and Recognizing Communication Rights

The 2003 Graham Spry Memorial Lecture: Toward a Human Right to Communicate?

In Search of the Talkative Public: Media, Deliberative Democracy and Civic Culture

Reaching the unreached

Communication is Inscribed in Human Nature: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Right to Communicate

Communication as a Human Need and Human Right