{"product_id":"how-machines-came-to-speak-jennifer-petersen-9781478014522","title":"How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech","description":"In \u003ci\u003eHow Machines Came to Speak\u003c\/i\u003e 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, and data. She examines a series of pivotal US court cases in which new media technologies--such as phonographs, radio, film, and computer code--were integral to this shift. In judicial decisions ranging from the determination that silent films were not a form of speech to the expansion of speech rights to include algorithmic outputs, courts understood speech as mediated through technology. Speech thus became disarticulated from individual speakers. By outlining how legal definitions of speech are indelibly dependent on technology, Petersen demonstrates that future innovations such as artificial intelligence will continue to restructure speech law in ways that threaten to protect corporate and institutional forms of speech over the rights and interests of citizens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Petersen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478014520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478014522\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2022","brand":"Jennifer Petersen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43945240822015,"sku":"9781478014522","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e52d2844-7d4c-4c51-8fbc-7b2250e41be7.jpg?v=1681507601","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-machines-came-to-speak-jennifer-petersen-9781478014522","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}