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Jennifer Petersen

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

Media Studies
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Jennifer Petersen is working on a history of how media technologies have changed what constitutes the “speech” in free speech law. Her project shows how changes in media technologies, from silent film to computer code, have transformed the way that legal practitioners understand communication, ultimately enabling the inclusion of diverse objects and actions within the legal guarantee of freedom of speech.

Dates at IAS

Visitor
School of Social Science

Degrees

University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D.
2006

Appointments

Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia
2014
Associate Professor
Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences at Stanford
2016–2017
Fellow