05569nam 2200637 450 991078763120332120200520144314.01-4422-2588-2(CKB)2670000000493631(EBL)1568698(SSID)ssj0001059712(PQKBManifestationID)12433767(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059712(PQKBWorkID)11086423(PQKB)11107082(MiAaPQ)EBC1568698(Au-PeEL)EBL1568698(CaPaEBR)ebr10812455(OCoLC)880773389(EXLCZ)99267000000049363120130801d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe first freedoms and America's culture of innovation the constitutional foundations of the aspirational society /Narain D. BatraLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,2014.1 online resource (251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4422-2587-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface: How the Book Was Born; Prometheus and Confucius; Human Rights and Julian Assange; Gratitude; Introduction: The Making of the Aspirational Society; Promethean Possibilities of the Aspirational Society; 1 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 Lessons; Doubtfully Trusting; How Unscripted Life Enables Innovative BehaviorState of ParanoiaHow the First Amendment Creates Mongrelized Offspring; Creative Disequilibrium; Warning; When the U.S. Supreme Court Woke Up; Freedom from Irrational Fear; Tyranny of Self-Censorship; 2 How Free Speech Stimulates Innovative Behavior; The Remaking 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; Democratization and Innovation3 Telling Stories to a Hyperconnected WorldA 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's ChallengeMaking Sense; New Challenges; 4 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; The Culture of Aspiration and the Arab Street; Turning Ideas into Assets; Mashing Up; Business Methods Patenting; Corporate Speech; 5 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 OutThe Moral Neutrality of NumbersMoney, Money, Money, and More Money; When Drug Companies Sell Snake Oil; Free Press and Corporate Behavior; Who Do You Call When Nothing Works?; 6 China's Authoritarianism Challenges American Democratic 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 FreedomThe First Freedoms and America's Culture of Innovation explores how the triangulation of the First Freedoms, open and competitive marketplace, and global brain-and-muscle-inflow into the Unites States generates spaces for Americans to become constant tinkerers, innovators, and entrepreneurs. Innovation at the highest level is a form of creative transgression that generates entrepreneurial possibilities and opens up opportunities that make up the aspirational society. If history has a pattern of decline and fall, the First Amendment is the mFreedom of expressionEconomic aspectsUnited StatesNational characteristics, AmericanTechnological innovationsLaw and legislationEconomic aspectsUnited StatesTechnology and lawUnited StatesFreedom of expressionEconomic aspectsNational characteristics, American.Technological innovationsLaw and legislationEconomic aspectsTechnology and law303.48/30973Batra N. D(Narain Dass),1937-1573881MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787631203321The first freedoms and America's culture of innovation3849805UNINA