* General  * Articles
  • An effort to formulate an international, networked discourse that neither promotes a dominant euphoria (to sell products) nor continues the cynical pessimism, spread by journalists and intellectuals in the 'old' media who generalize about 'new' media with no clear understanding of their communication aspects: Nettime-I 
  • An international journal of theory, technology, and culture, publishing articles,

  • interviews, event-scenes and reviews of key books: Ctheory.net
  • Article on the birth of a Digital Nation 
* Freedom of Speech
  • The FACT Web site is intended to be a resource for anyone wanting to learn about the First Amendment. It provides information on all the liberties guaranteed by the amendment.
  • Contains QUOTES from the founders, presidents, U.S. Supreme Court justices, and other judges on First Amendment liberties
  • Website for the American First Amendment Center 
  • Newseum's Freedom Forum 
  • Presents publicly accessible documents, cases, and images concerning the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Includes opinion polls and visual aids: First Amendment Online 
  • Thomas Jefferson Center : Center for the Protection of Free Expression defends First Amendment rights in all arenas. 
* Related Syllabi from other Schools
  • Rights and Responsibilities: Community at the Intersection of "Race," Class, and Gender: Rights and Responsabilities, Bard College 
  • The Students’ Bill of Rights articulates a public commitment to providing every student in California with a high quality education that prepares him or her for a 4-year university, a living wage job, and active participation in civic life: Bill of Rights Background 
  • This seminar will examine privacy rights in the post-911 world. Beginning with a brief history of privacy law, we will engage in a thorough collaborative examination of privacy law post-911: Privacy Rights Syllabus 
  • This study group will explore civil liberties in the Internet context, as well as key themes that bear on these issues, such as the raging debate over intellectual property protections for digital media: Civil Liberties in Cyberspace 
  • This course will dig for core principles that will survive the rush of "Internet time," as we survey some of the current debates raging over law online: jurisdiction and overlapping sovereignties; regulation of e-commerce; freedom of speech and its interfaces with anonymity, privacy, and defamation; protection of intellectual property rights; security and government enforcement; and more: Internet Law 2002 
  • This class analyzes policy questions including Net and Web governance, censorship, privacy, encryption, taxation, transaction security, net security, access, police-state surveillance, globalization, and implications for the State, governance, accountability, and democracy: Politics of the Internet 
  • Internet Law, University of Miami: The Internet and the Markets 
  • This course is designed as an introduction to the Internet as a communication and research/reference tool for educators. The class will cover an introduction to the network; essential terms and technologies; issues and policies; key reference sites; and development of individual home pages on the World Wide Web: Internet for Educators 
  • This course is designed as an introduction to the Internet as a communication and research/reference tool. The class will cover an introduction to the network; essential terms and technologies; research methods and techniques; issues and policies; and key reference sites: Communicating through the internet 
  • This calss will provide students with a thorough introduction to issues related to censorship and the freedom of speech in a democratic society: ComS 152--Freedom of Speech 

  • This class examines the idea of free speech as it has developed in the United States. Much of the class will be devoted to mass media law, including topics such as libel, invasion of privacy and obscenity: Freedom of Speech: Law & Ethics of the Media

 
* Pro Patriot Act 
*Anti Patriot Act
* Privacy  * Other groups
  • Notre Dame group devoted to exposing issues related to Democracy in the Age of the Net: Democracy Group 
  • Notre Dame group devoted to exposing issues related to Morality in the Age of the Net: Morality Group 
  • Notre Dame group devoted to exposing issues related to Security in the Age of the Net: Security Group 
  • Notre Dame group devoted to exposing issues related to Markets in the Age of the Net: Markets