GED2200

GED2200: Free Speech and the Challenge of Social Media

This course will allow students to explore social media and its effects on free speech and public discourse in contemporary society. It will cover the philosophical foundations of free speech, the legal and institutional expressions of free speech in modern democracies, the characteristics of social media infrastructure, how our society’s free speech is being influenced if not transformed by this infrastructure, and perspectives on | the need, or not, for “regulatory fixes” advanced from different viewpoints.

Theme 2: Civic Life

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