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Media and socio-cultural communication

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Index On Censorship, Volume 41, Number 3, 2012

http://ioc.sagepub.com/


Abstract

A project designed to record the experiences of participants in the 30-ynears of political unheavel in Northern Ireland has led to debates over academic and jouralistic sources and the right to maintain source anoymity. The interviews with former IRA and Loyalist paramilitaries for the Boston College project has led to a debate about academic freedoms as the PSNi is demanding through the United States Courts access to the confidential material. The legal actin in both the US and the Northern Ireland Courts has raised questions about journalism, academia, the First Amendmet to the US Constitution and relationships between the UK and the USA.

DOI

10.1177/0306422012456133

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