The first freedoms and America's culture of innovation : the constitutional foundations of the aspirational society / / Narain D. Batra

• Autore: Batra N. D (Narain Dass), <1937->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/30973
• Soggetto topico: Freedom of expression - Economic aspects - United States; National characteristics, American; Technological innovations - Law and legislation - Economic aspects - United States; Technology and law - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Behavior ; State 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 Innovation ; 3 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 Out ; The 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 Freedom
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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 m
• Titolo autorizzato: The first freedoms and America's culture of innovation
• ISBN: 1-4422-2588-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462995803321
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