IF and Libraries: Children and Intellectual Freedom

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IF and Libraries Children and Intellectual
Freedom
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Review and Overview

• Review Bad Information (misinformation,
  disinformation, and hate speech), labeling and
  cultural property.
• Preview Children and Information, Childrens
  information rights, children and violence,
  children and pornography.

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Quiz 5

• According to Archard, what sort of rights might
  only adults have (A rights), what sorts of rights
  do both adults and children have (A-C rights)?
  What sort of rights might only children have
  (C-rights)?
• State and briefly explain two of childrens
  information rights listed in the Convention on
  the Rights of the Child.
• According to Etzioni, what sorts of information
  have been shown to be harmful to children?
  Describe some of this evidence.
• How does Heins suggest we deal with troubling
  media messages to which children are exposed?

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Rights Choice Theory

• Do children have the capacity to make genuine
  autonomous choices?
• What they do choose? Or what they would choose?
• What do they need now in order to have the
  capacity to make genuine choices in the future?
• What sorts of information?

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Rights Interest Theory

• What interests do children have?
• What sorts of information are required to satisfy
  these interests?
• Is any information contrary to these interests?

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Childrens First Amendment Rights

• Tinker
• ALA Position http//www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Sect
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Parents Rights

• ALA Position http//www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Sect
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• Parents have the rights to bring up their
  children as they see fit (within certain bounds).
• To what extent should others help or
  interfere with parental actions?