Forward into the Past: Speech Intermediaries in Television and Internet Ages Symposium: Falsehoods, Fake News, and the First Amendment: Panel 3: The Brave New World of Free Speech

Authors

Gregory P. Magarian, Washington University in St. Louis School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2018

Publication Title

Oklahoma Law Review

Abstract

Communication constructs society. By speaking to, with, and among one another, people and groups build relationships that allow us all to live more fully, understand the world better, and govern ourselves collectively. As societies grow, expression and engagement become more challenging. The presence of more ideas, larger and more diverse potential audiences, and more powerful and remote institutions threatens to reduce communication to a futile exercise. Whatever normative goals different people and groups may want public discourse to serve, pursuing those goals gets harder.

Keywords

Internet, Free Speech, First Amendment, Fake News, Mass Media, Communications

Publication Citation

Gregory P. Magarian, Forward into the Past: Speech Intermediaries in Television and Internet Ages Symposium: Falsehoods, Fake News, and the First Amendment: Panel 3: The Brave New World of Free Speech, 71 Okla. L. Rev. 237 (2018)

Repository Citation

Magarian, Gregory P., "Forward into the Past: Speech Intermediaries in Television and Internet Ages Symposium: Falsehoods, Fake News, and the First Amendment: Panel 3: The Brave New World of Free Speech" (2018). Scholarship@WashULaw. 221.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/221