Eva-Maria Svensson

Blurring the lines : market-driven and democracy-driven freedom of expression Eva-Maria Svensson

This anthology is a result of a conference held in Sweden at the University of Gothenburg, 6-7 October 2015, Communicative democracy: Protecting, promoting and developing free speech in the digital era. The aim of the conference was to gather scholars from several fields to gain new insights regarding the tensions between the state, the market, the media and the citizens regarding free speech. This is an emerging field of research that studies the complex processes and challenges when the line between advertising and journalism is blurred. Who is to be trusted and what consequences will this have? Both the conference and the anthology is a part of the research project Market-driven and democracy-driven freedom of expression, a collaboration between Department of Law (Eva-Maria Svensson), and Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (Maria Edström) at the University of Gothenburg, financed by Ragnar Söderberg Foundation (2013-2016). In editing the book Andrew Kenyon from Centre for Media and Communications Law in the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne has been an invaluable resource