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Et nytt medielandskap har gitt endrede vilkår for offentlig debatt: for ytringsfrihet, informasjonsfrihet og kunnskapsformidling. Men der noen ser en grenseløs ny offentlighet preget av hets og sjikane, ser andre et knugende meningsklima der det straffer seg å gå mot strømmen. Og der noen hyller de nye mediene for å slippe nye stemmer til, tviler andre på at en meningsfylt samtale er mulig i dagens algoritmestyrte sosiale medier. Hvordan kan virkeligheten oppfattes så forskjellig? I denne boken undersøker forfatterne om disse motpolene har gjenklang i den norske befolkningen, eller om polariseringen er overdrevet. De utforsker hvilke grenser folk trekker for hva man kan hevde og mene offentlig, om disse grensedragningene har endret seg i de senere årene, og hvordan alder, kjønn, utdanning og politisk ståsted henger sammen med ulike oppfatninger og erfaringer. Ikke minst undersøker de kunnskapens vilkår i en ny offentlighet: Hvordan vurderer folk flest den informasjonen de har tilgang til via ulike medier? Og hvilke hindringer møter produsenter av ny kunnskap, det vil si forskere i akademia, når de utforsker og formidler sine funn? Er det rom for et mangfold av perspektiver, eller bidrar konformitetspress, maktkamp og styringssystemer til at noen temaer blir underbelyst? Med utgangspunkt i analyser av unik empiri bidrar boken med innsikt – på tvers av posisjoner og motpoler – i ytringsfrihetens vilkår i en ny norsk offentlighet.

Society & social sciences --- Society & culture: general --- Ethical issues & debates --- Ethical issues: censorship --- Social issues & processes --- Political correctness

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Laura Agustín presents an analysis of the position prostitutes occupy within the global economy.

Prostitution --- Prostitutes --- Human smuggling --- Foreign workers --- Sex tourism --- Ethical issues: prostitution & sex industry --- Attitudes.

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"At the beginning of the 1960s, Swedish researchers started a sociological study of all children born in Stockholm in 1953, Project Metropolitan. This book describes the project’s at times dramatic history, where issues of personal integrity and the role of social sciences were heavily debated. These discussions were fueled by the rapid and far-reaching digitalization in society at large and also within social sciences. As such, Project Metropolitan came to symbolize the benefits and potential risks related to an expanding body of research based on large groups of individuals and multiple register data sources.At the outset, the project’s founders sought to answer the following question: “Why do some get on better in life than others?” One of the main aims of the project was to study the long-term impact of conditions in childhood. The book therefore also includes an updated presentation of the main findings, as they have been conveyed in over 160 publications to date. These publications cover a wide array of topics and phenomena such as social mobility and education, substance abuse and crime, health and ill-health, peer influences and family relations, and adult lives of adopted children.Today Project Metropolitan is known as the “Stockholm Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study (SBC Multigen)” and is still in full vigor. From its original group of 15,000 children, the study has become multi-generational by adding data about their parents, siblings, children, nieces and nephews. As they approach their late 60s, it will also be possible to follow these “children” into retirement and old-age.In the concluding chapter the author discusses some of the challenges contemporary social research is facing. What are the current threats to academic freedom and what opportunities do the unique data registers in countries like Sweden provide?"

Society & social sciences --- Society & culture: general --- Social issues & processes --- Ethical issues & debates --- Project Metropolitan (Stockholms Universitet) --- History.

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Abortion trail activists are national and transnational organizations and movements that enable access to safe abortion - this open access book adopts a global perspective to explore their historic contribution to reproductive justice, their innovative work, and the continuing and emergent problems they face. Deirdre Duffy offers the first dedicated analysis of both the historic and on-going relationship between groups supporting access to abortion and abortion politics, drawing on theoretical perspectives and debates including post-colonialism, feminist anarchism and health activism. Challenging assumptions about the achievements of pro-choice politics, Duffy examines the race-based exclusions within and created by dominant historic pro-choice narratives, critiquing the prochoice movements' whiteness, and the limitations of a focus on legal change. Case studies are drawn from across the Global North and South, including examples from Argentina, Kenya, Poland, the Netherlands, and Ireland. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Lancaster University.

Abortion --- Pro-choice movement. --- Reproductive rights. --- Social aspects. --- Medical tourism., --- Ethical issues: abortion & birth control --- Human rights --- Women's health

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Suite à la récente « crise des pilules » de troisième et de quatrième générations, les femmes rejettent de plus en plus massivement ce moyen de contraception. Pourquoi la pilule est-elle alors tant prescrite en France, en dépit des critiques qu'elle soulève ? Comment est-elle devenue une évidence médicale alors qu'elle ne l'est pas dans d’autres pays ? Ces questions, abordées dans l’ouvrage, sont d’autant plus cruciales que ce standard médical n’est pas sans conséquences : il conduit à amalgamer « pilule » et « contraception », et à définir cette dernière exclusivement comme une « affaire de femmes ». En décortiquant le mythe de la pilule comme « révolution », Alexandra Roux retrace la genèse de cette norme contraceptive française, éclairant les débats actuels sur le rejet de la pilule, sur ces risques et sur le partage de la charge contraceptive. Elle revient sur la manière dont les mouvements féministes en France ont érigé la pilule comme symbole de leurs luttes pour la liberté procréative, laissant peu de place à la critique des risques et des effets secondaires de ce médicament. L’idée que la pilule « libère les femmes » a aussi servi de puissant argument marketing aux industries pharmaceutiques pour se garantir de très larges profits. Ainsi, l’autrice met en exergue le rôle qu’ont joué l’institution médicale et les laboratoires pharmaceutiques dans le façonnement d’un « pilulocentrisme » à la française. En imposant la pilule comme seule réponse efficace et recommandable contre le « fléau » des avortements, ces acteurs ont participé à genrer la régulation des naissances, et à exempter durablement les hommes de cette charge, au détriment des femmes.

Oral contraceptives --- Birth control --- Women --- Contraception. --- Contraceptifs oraux. --- Droits des femmes. --- Illness & addiction: social aspects. --- Ethical issues: abortion & birth control. --- Gender studies: women. --- Feminism