JOUR 601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 82: Functionality Doctrine, Symbolic Speech, Pure Speech
4 Sep 2020
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People wonder to what extent robots speak for legal consideration. Machines talk with people and with each other to do the things they were programmed to perform. This field of human-machine communication has emerged to study the creation of meaning when people and machines talk with one another. Technologies are moving closer to the goal of natural human communication. This deals with more personalized communication when speaking with us and recognizing our name, voices, and personal preferences. They enter into our society as an active user through their use and design. Thinking about machine communication can create a broad continuum of human-created objects that do things and send messages we can understand. The first amendment considers any conduct with some component of expression as speech that can be protected. Spoken and written words are speech, along with symbolic speech. An example of symbolic speech is wearing an armband to protest.
