ABSTRACT This article extends reasoning about social policy, as a response to basic human need, to the treatment of communication policy. The idea of communication as a basic human need is of vital importance in a contemporary world in which so much social interaction of a private and public nature occurs through technological mediation. Through an examination of arguments in social and political theory about human needs, this article emphasizes how “needs talk” is used to justify “rights talk,” with particular attention given to how assumptions about communication needs—what they are, how they can or should be satisfied, and the politics of need recognition—are or can be used to justify communication rights.

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人类需要作为通信权的理由

摘要 本文将作为对人类基本需求的回应的社会政策的推理扩展到对传播政策的处理。在当今世界，通过技术中介发生如此多的私人和公共性质的社会互动，将交流作为人类基本需求的想法至关重要。通过对社会和政治理论中关于人类需求的论点的考察，本文强调如何使用“需求谈话”来为“权利谈话”辩护，并特别关注关于沟通需求的假设——它们是什么、它们如何能够或应该得到满足，并且需要承认的政治是或可以被用来证明传播权的正当性。