The press clause and digital technology's fourth wave : media law and the symbiotic web / Jared Schroeder.
2018
K3255 .S37 2018 (Mapit)
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The press clause and digital technology's fourth wave : media law and the symbiotic web / Jared Schroeder.
Imprint
New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Copyright
©2018.
Description
208 pages ; 24 cm.
Series
Routledge studies in media law and policy.
Formatted Contents Note
Press rights and the next wave
Knowledge through discourse
Publishers with networked identities
Expression in virtual communities
Re-examining the press clause
Writing on a 'clean slate'
Separating journalists from publishers
The rights of artificially intelligent communicators
The press clause and the fourth wave.
Knowledge through discourse
Publishers with networked identities
Expression in virtual communities
Re-examining the press clause
Writing on a 'clean slate'
Separating journalists from publishers
The rights of artificially intelligent communicators
The press clause and the fourth wave.
Summary
During the first part of the twenty-first century, bloggers, citizen journalists, social media users, Yelp reviewers, and a myriad of other communicators have found themselves facing defamation, privacy, campaign finance, and other lawsuits as a result of the messages they have communicated. In many ways, these communicators are facing legal questions that are similar to what traditional journalists have faced for centuries regarding their rights to gather and publish information. This book examines how the press clause, a First Amendment freedom with no agreed-upon definition, can be understood in order to help guide the courts and twenty-first-century publishers regarding protecting expression as we move into the fourth wave of networked communication, an era that will be defined by increasingly complex relationships between humans and artificially intelligent communicators. To do so, the book draws upon the discourse theory of communication in democratic society, the legal and foundational history of the press clause, lower-court cases that involve citizen publishers who have claimed protections that have historically been associated with traditional journalism, and established legal and scholarly examinations of artificial intelligence to ultimately construct a framework for how the press clause can be reimagined to protect older and newer generations of publishers.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
K3255 .S37 2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781138281172
1138281174
9781315271309
1138281174
9781315271309
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