What Will Your Life be Like in Five Years? Without Freedom of Expression it may not Matter

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

The Freedom of Expression division asks, Have you ever thought of how your life would change without the protection of the First Amendment? While central to every unit in NCA, most communication scholars are unaware of how the Constitution's First Amendment impacts their area of research, their teaching or their daily lives. This panel will pair leading national and international scholars in organizational communication, technology and human communication, mass communication, and political communication with renound scholars in freedom of expression to explore how the United States would change in the absence of the First Amendment.

Sub Unit

• Five Years Out Programs

Cosponsor

• NCA First Vice President

Chair

• Debbi Hatton, Sam Houston State Univ

Presenters

• Linda Putnam, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Warren Sandmann, Minnesota State University, Mankato

• Glenda Balas, Univ of New Mexico

• Susan Balter-Reitz, Montana State Univ, Billings

• M. Lane Bruner, Georgia State University

• Juliet Dee, University of Delaware

• Susan Drucker, Hofstra University

• Gary Gumpert, Urban Communication Foundation

Session Organizer

• Susan Balter-Reitz, Montana State Univ, Billings