Introductory Note: Communication and Freedom

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 ...