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Digital Technologies: Chapter Analysis

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Kamal Issa Russ, Payne Final Assignment 12/9/2015 In this chapter, Balkin argues that digital technologies change social conditions of speech and therefore should change the focus of free speech theory, or republican concern with protecting democratic process and democratic deliberation, to a large concern with protecting and promoting a democratic culture. Balkin said in this chapter that "a democratic culture is a culture in which individual have a fair opportunity to participate in the forms of meaning-making that constitute them as individuals". The definition is individual-oriented, participatory in spirit, and places key emphasis on meaning-making. For example, language is about meaning-making unless we develop the average citizen's

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