Caitlin Burke & Victor Wu have posted to SSRN Beyond Speech: Social Media Liability & Product Design. The abstract provides:
This article argues that contemporary debates over social media liability have been misconstrued as disputes about speech. Drawing on a breadth of interdisciplinary research in human-computer interaction, science and technology studies, psychology, medicine, media theory, and more, this article shows that social media today functions as an engineered environment akin to a designed consumer …