How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech

by Jennifer A. Petersen

Book Overview

In How Machines Came to Speak Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of how legal conceptions of "speech" have transformed over the last century in response to new media technologies. Drawing on media and legal history, Petersen shows that the legal category of speech has varied considerably, evolving from a narrow category of oratory and print publication to a broad, abstract conception encompassing expressive nonverbal actions, algorithms,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478014520
• ISBN13: 9781478014522
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"