Nota Introdutória
Comunicação e Liberdade
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4837751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luana Almeida Santos (0000-0002-7062-0307, University of Minho, corresponding author), Liziane Guazina (0000-0002-4765-6918, Universidade de Brasília) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 7-12 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comunicação e Sociedade (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1645-2089 • E-ISSN: 2183-3575 |
| Publisher | University of Minho (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17231/volesp(2025).6491 |
| OpenAlex | W4409733848 |
| Language | PT |
| References cited | 5 |
The realisation that freedom is a supreme value has deep roots in the history of philosophical and political thought.Nevertheless, both because of the breadth of the idea of "acting freely", from thought as a form of action, and because of the dynamism of societies, where every day new challenges destabilise what was once thought to be certain, the terms in which the freedom is experienced (or not) remain unsettling.In the field of communication, the global assumption (less universal than Human Rights suggest, however) of the principle of freedom of expression has also not been enough to guarantee that the scenarios of restriction have been overcome.The Reporters Without Borders ranking (see https://rsf.org/pt-br/ranking)reveals some very worrying realities in countries where censorship and attacks on journalists (in some cases murder, in others imprisonment or violence) keep the value of freedom of expression on a blurred horizon.While the figures regularly published by organisations of this kind are alarming enough, new forms of limitation and new vulnerabilities are also questioning the fullness of this principle.There can be no doubt that the blessings of communication technologies -which have widened access to information and democratised the production of content -are now accompanied by other risks and threats to the fundamental freedoms of thought, opinion, creation, expression and action.Hate speech, which has become a critical issue in the context of social networks, is one of the areas where the problem of freedom of expression is discussed as an ethical dilemma (Gorenc, 2022).The same goes for the phenomenon of disinformation, in particular fake news, a territory where there seems to be a little more acceptability in defining limits to freedom (Mathiesen, 2019).Often identified with the social media context (Shu et al., 2020), the problem of disinformation, which is recognised as a threat to democracy (Iosifidis & Nicoli, 2021; Trottier et al., 2020), has to do with the fact that it no longer corresponds to a kind of deprivation of the right to be informed, but rather a violation of freedom through the perversion of the information conveyed.In times of explicit censorship or in regions where there are still regimes of formal control over communication and information flows, the limit to freedom stems from silencing strategies that translate into "you can't say" or the inhibition of disclosure.However, what makes the feeling that freedom is still a fragile value disturbing is that it is now less a matter of assumed censorship and more a matter of manoeuvres of distortion, noise generation and subversion, including as a political communication strategy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |