1st Edition

Media Law Through Science Fiction Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech?

By Daxton R. Stewart Copyright 2019
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

Attorney and legal scholar Daxton Stewart examines the intersection of media law and science fiction, exploring the past, present, and future of communication technology and policy debates. Science fiction offers a vast array of possibilities anticipating future communication technologies and their implications on human affairs. In this book, Stewart looks at potential legal challenges... Read more

Foreword by Malka Older

Preface

1. Science Fiction, Technology, and Policy

2. The Future of Copyright Law, Both Real and Virtual

3. Privacy in the Perpetual Surveillance State

4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech?

5. Vanishing Speech and Destroying Works

6. Law, the Universe, and Everything

Biography

Daxton R. "Chip" Stewart, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., is a professor of Journalism in the Bob Schieffer College of Communication at Texas Christian University. He has more than 15 years of professional experience in news media and public relations and has been a licensed attorney since 1998. His recent scholarship has focused on the intersection of social media and the law, including the book Social Media and the Law (2nd ed., Routledge 2017).