Media Law Through Science Fiction
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Media Law Through Science Fiction

Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech?

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Media Law Through Science Fiction

Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech?

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About This Book

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 presented by plausible communication technologies that may arise 20 or 50 or 100 years from today. Performing what he calls "speculative legal research, " Stewart identifies the kinds of topics we should be talking about relating to speech, privacy, surveillance, and more, and considers the debates that would be likely to arise if such technologies become a reality. Featuring interviews with prominent science fiction authors and legal scholars, and a foreword by Malka Older, this book considers the speculative solutions of science fiction and their implications in law and policy scholarship. Chapters feature specific literary examples to examine how cultural awareness and policy creation are informed by fictional technology, future societies, and legal disputes.

Looking forward, beyond traditional legal research and scholarship to the possible and even very likely future of communication technology, this fascinating work of speculative legal research will give students and scholars of media law, science fiction, and technology much to discuss and debate.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
9781317363224
Edition
1
Topic
Derecho
Subtopic
Derecho de los medios y el entretenimiento

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Preface
  10. 1. Science Fiction, Technology, and Policy
  11. 2. The Future of Copyright Law, Both Real and Virtual
  12. 3. Privacy in the Perpetual Surveillance State
  13. 4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech?
  14. 5. Vanishing Speech and Destroying Works
  15. 6. Law, the Universe, and Everything
  16. Index