Petersen How Machines Came to Speak

Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2182-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 298 Seiten

Reihe: Sign, Storage, Transmission

Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of the legal conceptions of what counts as “speech” within free speech law, showing how changes in media technology influenced changing legal definitions of speech.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petersen, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Medienrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. The “Speech” in Freedom of Speech 1
1. Moving Images and Early Twentieth-Century Public Opinion 24
2. “A Primitive but Effective Means of Conveying Ideas”: Gesture and Image as Speech 57
3. Transmitters, Relays, and Messages: Decentering the Speaker in Midcentury Speech Law 87
4. Speech without Speakers: How Speech Became Information 119
5. Speaking Machines: The Uncertain Subjects of Computer Communication 157
Conclusion. The Past and Future of Speech 190
Appendix on Methods 205
Notes 207
Bibliography 257
Index 271

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Petersen is Associate Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California and author of Murder, the Media, and the Politics of Public Feelings: Remembering Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.