Communication rights and capabilities

Amit M. Schejter and Baruch Shomron

Chapter 27 in Handbook of Media and Communication Governance, 2024, pp 358-371 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: We question whether and how the capability to communicate can be safeguarded by the mechanism of establishing communicating as a right. In order to do so, we define what communications are, explore the nature of rights and specifically the scope of the right to communicate and how that term relates to the notion of ‘communication rights’, and introduce the idea of the capability to communicate and the elements it is comprised of, which need to be identified in order to identify what type of right the right to communicate is and communication rights are, and to ensure the viability of these rights. The capabilities approach and its focus on positive rights serves as the main theoretical foundation for this analysis.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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