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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1260291851 Title: How machines came to speak : media technologies and freedom of speech Author: Jennifer Petersen Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022. ISBN/ISSN: 9781478013600 1478013605 9781478014522 1478014520 OCLC:1260291851

  
  

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How machines came to speak : media technologies and freedom of speech

Author:	Jennifer Petersen
Publisher:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Series:	Sign, storage, transmission.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"How Machines Came to Speak argues that the development of new media technologies-from the phonograph, film, and radio in the early twentieth century to computer code and algorithms today-has been integral to legal conceptions of free speech in the U.S. Traditional histories of free speech and the First Amendment focus on court cases with clear moral and political stakes in regulating speech, including cases that established worker picketing, criticism of war, and freedom of the press as aspects of free speech. Yet, according to Jennifer Petersen, the outcomes of these cases have often been determined by earlier legal precedent around how we define speech itself. Offering what she calls "a media history of free speech," Petersen shows that over the course of the twentieth century, the Supreme Court's definition of speech grew to include everything from symbols and gestures (like saluting the flag) to messages without a clear speaker (like opinions broadcast over the radio) to corporate messages (like commercials and donations). As algorithms increasingly determine which news and culture we consume, Petersen argues that technology and discourse on communication are still central to how the Courts conceptualize free speech, and legal decisions concerning the parameters of speech are bound up in concerns about the constitution of personhood that have been shaped and reshaped by the role of technology as a mediator of social relations and identity"--  Read more...
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Subjects	Communication -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States. Freedom of speech -- United States. Freedom of expression -- United States. View all subjects
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