Overview
- The first book to offer an extended analysis of political deception from a political communication and communication law perspective
- Details the history and philosophical underpinnings of how political speech is regulated in a political and media environment consumed by this question'
- Applies presented theory to the case of the 2016 US Presidential Election
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the history of the legal discourse around political falsehood and its future in the wake of the 2012 US Supreme Court decision in US v. Alvarez through communication law, political philosophy, and communication theory perspectives. As US v. Alvarez confirmed First Amendment protection for lies, Robert N. Spicer addresses how the ramifications of that decision function by looking at statutory and judicial handling of First Amendment protection for political deception. Illustrating how commercial speech is regulated but political speech is not, Spicer evaluates the role of deception in politics and its consequences for democracy in a contemporary political environment where political personalities, partisan media, and dark money donors bend the truth and abuse the virtue of free expression.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Robert N. Spicer is Assistant Professor of Digital Journalism at Millersville University, USA. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Media Education, Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, and the Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Free Speech and False Speech
Book Subtitle: Political Deception and Its Legal Limits (Or Lack Thereof)
Authors: Robert N. Spicer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69820-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69819-9Published: 03 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09912-1Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69820-5Published: 20 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 158
Topics: Media and Communication, Political Communication, Constitutional Law, US Politics, American Culture