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CASS SUNSTEIN
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Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School. Thursday, May 8th at 6:00pm McCormick Tribune Center 1870 Campus Drive Northwestern University Evanston Campus [map]
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Cass R. Sunstein has written extensively on constitutional law, the First Amendment, and jurisprudence. He is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and Department of Political Science. A past member of the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters, he writes regularly for popular magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, and the American Prospect. He has also appeared on ABC Nightline, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NBC Evening News, ABC World News Tonight, NPR Fresh Air and many other programs.
Professor Sunstein's webpage has links to his courses, seminars, publications, and curriculum vitae.
Republic.com
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Republic.com (Princeton, 2001)
See only what you want to see, hear only what you want to hear, read only what you want to read. In cyberspace, we already have the ability to filter out everything but what we wish to see, hear, and read. Tomorrow, our power to filter promises to increase exponentially. With the advent of the Daily Me, you see only the sports highlights that concern your teams, read about only the issues that interest you, encounter in the op-ed pages only the opinions with which you agree. In all of the applause for this remarkable ascendance of personalized information, Cass Sunstein asks the questions, Is it good for democracy? Is it healthy for the republic? What does this mean for freedom of speech? Read chapter one, "The Daily Me" [.pdf]. |