{"id":73204,"date":"2026-07-06T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=73204"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:29:48","slug":"morgan-weiland","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/morgan-weiland\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Weiland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Morgan N. Weiland is the Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Assistant Professor of Communication Law in the College of Communication at Boston University and holds a courtesy appointment at Boston University School of Law. She is an Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School\u2019s Center for Internet &amp; Society and an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School&#8217;s Information Society Project. Her research and teaching explore the intersection of new media technologies, communication history, and information policy through an interdisciplinary lens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Her dissertation, Making Internet Law: How Cyberspace Was Socially Constructed as a First Amendment Speech System, explains how we ended up with a system in which private, for-profit social media firms have power over\u2014but not responsibility for\u2014public speech. This work, which she is turning into a book, won the Best Dissertation Award from the Philosophy, Theory and Critique division of the International Communication Association in 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25438,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/73204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/73204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73210,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/73204\/revisions\/73210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}