@article{1478338,
      recid = {1478338},
      author = {O'Neil, Robert, },
      title = {Academic Freedom in the Wired World : Political Extremism,  Corporate Power, and the University /},
      pages = {1 online resource (320 p.)},
      abstract = {In this passionately argued overview, a longtime  activist-scholar takes readers through the changing  landscape of academic freedom. From the aftermath of  September 11th to the new frontier of blogging, Robert  O'Neil examines the tension between institutional and  individual interests. Many cases boil down to a hotly  contested question: who has the right to decide what is  taught in the classroom? O'Neil shows how courts  increasingly restrict professorial judgment, and how the  feeble protection of what is posted on the Internet and  written in email makes academics more vulnerable than ever.  Even more provocatively, O'Neil argues, the newest threats  to academic freedom come not from government, but from the  private sector. Corporations increasingly sponsor and  control university-based research, while self-appointed  watchdogs systematically harass individual teachers on  websites and blogs. Most troubling, these threats to  academic freedom are nearly immune from legal recourse.  Insisting that new concepts of academic freedom, and new  strategies for maintaining it are needed, O'Neil urges  academics to work together--and across rigid and simplistic  divisions between "left" and "right."},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478338},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674033726},
}