Dear posters and lurkers, Next week, the Meaning Reading Group finally enters the information age with our first session on online speech. A content notice up front: our reading goes into some disturbing content with relation to online abuse!
In "Who Do You Speak For? And How? Anonymity and Identity in Online Abuse", Michael Barnes tries to show that online abuse is an underappreciated area of subordinating speech that we social & political philosophers of language should pay more attention to. This is especially salient because online abuse might confront us with the inadequacy of our tools: "accounting for the realities of online abuse shows that speaker authority is dynamic and emergent, and often depends on the community in more ways than standard theories of licensing and accommodation are equipped to explain". Join us next week to discuss! Please join us on Wednesday, September 2nd, from 4.00 to 5.30pm UK time, for the discussion. Please find the paper here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hfq4je0th0yi3ke/Barnes%20-%20Online%20Abuse.pdf?dl=0 And please join the meeting here: https://zoom.us/j/95270195257 Meeting-ID: 952 7019 5257 The very best, Nikki _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
