A good article analyzes the strong cultural reactions to voluntary changes made by the companies that manage the "Potato Head"…
We understand many readers find the kraken’s point of view dangerous, but that is why we offered it for public…
Reducing the reach of abusive tweets is better than censorship on the one hand, and nothing on the other. Of…
Hat tip to my former student Kiley Fischer, who brought this story to my attention saying "Good example of ‘do…
After using examples from Warsaw and Prague, the 2007 edition of my journalism textbook predicts: The threat is no longer…
Facebook wants you to spend more time on Facebook, so why should they promote links pointing to content that exists…
Facebook makes editorial decisions that affect its presentation of news through its "news" (?) feed. But Facebook is in the…
In February two students complained about an Allen Ginsberg poem that, at the request of a fellow student, was shared in…
On Twitter, I see tear-gassed civilians, heavily armed cops, and reporters being arrested. On Facebook, I see people dumping buckets…
NEWS FLASH: If your sources are an off-the-record comment and a thing you chose to do, and you claim that…
If political powerbrokers want to buy newspapers, what are the obligations of the journalists involved? What if the journalists, as…
The new censorship technology announced by Twitter allows the company to block tweets or users on a country-by-country basis. Previously,…
While a Muslim advocacy group, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), was instrumental in getting National Public Radio (NPR) to…
News about a free-speech dust-up in the department where I used to work at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire:…
Inside Higher Ed:Student newspaper advisers are something of an endangered species these days. They often get caught in the middle…
From an article I published in 1997, back when I thought I was pretty hot stuff to include postage-stamp-sized video…
New to me... disemvoweling: a compromise between preserving free speech and letting trolls take over a public online forum. In…
The New York premiere of the film, on Wednesday, was held to support the organisation Reporters Without Borders, which defends…
Bradbury has decided to make news about the writing of his iconographic work and what he really meant. Fahrenheit 451…
Politicians and other moral crusaders frequently create "folk devils," individuals or groups defined as evil and immoral. Folk devils allow…