CMN 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ebay, 6 Years, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2170
• Professor: Elizabeth Dubois

Document Summary

Universal declaration of human rights (1948); article 19 . Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression: freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. What does the udhr have to do with anything? . Canadians: limitations to public figures and in certain contexts, laws against hate speech, in practice, it"s a privilege, but in theory it"s a right. What happens if some people have access to them and others don"t: digital divide limits publication of free speech . Used in the 1990"a to describe how owning a pc or telephone: separates rich from the poor. Based on socio-economic factors, rich are framed as the norm, and poor famed as late in technology. Began to use term digital divide to describe: initially only rich from poor in one nation-state. Today: describes the divide between rich and poor countries, or nation-states on a whole.