At the AAS in Asia meetings in Seoul in the summer of 2017, a group of analysts interested in media explored the notion that the market and the state are two ends of a continuum when it comes to censorship and freedom of expression. The panelists challenged that received wisdom, noting the ways in which state-run efforts to control information flows can be clumsy, and the ways in which market forces can stifle expression. We wanted to follow up on that discussion at the AAS meetings in Washington DC in the spring of 2018, so we invited participants in the Seoul panel plus new voices to carry that discussion further by looking at how the market and state alternately work together or against each other when it comes to freedom and censorship, and addressing the implications of that complicated relationship. In addition, in light of the increased interest in the...
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