Defamation in Cyberpunk

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Author(s): Nikhil Moro (Kansas State University, USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 15
Source title: Redefining Journalism in an Age of Technological Advancements, Changing Demographics, and Social Issues
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Phylis Johnson (San Jose State University, USA)and Ian Punnett (Kansas State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3844-9.ch018

Keywords: Digital Communications / Information Science Reference / Mass Communications / Media & Communications

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Abstract

The law of libel, which balances rights of expression and reputation, has found unique conceptual and ontological challenges in the virtual utopia of cyberpunk culture. A presumption that law is to sociology as ontology is to humans allows this essay to examine whether United States libel laws can reconcile with the ephemeral technologies and assertive demands of cyberpunk. In revisiting goals of libel law, the essay discusses the critical questions of whether bots and cyborgs have a reputation, whether artificial intelligence is more ideology than technology, whether legal positivism is moot, and whether post-professional and post-national environments will universalize the principles of libel law.

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