PROFESSOR AMY C. GAUDION TO PRESENT AT INDIANA LAW JOURNAL SYMPOSIUM IN NOVEMBER
October 2024 — Professor Amy C. Gaudion will present her paper, “Discord and the Pentagon’s Watch Dog: Countering Violent Extremism in the U.S. Military from Within” at the Indiana Law Journal’s Fall 2024 symposium on Law and Technology at the Crossroads: A Centennial Summit. The symposium will be held at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law on November 1, 2024.
In his recent book, Ward Farnsworth crafts a metaphor from the lead-pipe theory for the fall of Rome to consider how rage and misinformation traveling through today’s technology-enabled pipes are poisoning our civic engagement and threatening our governmental structures: “We have built networks for the delivery of information — the internet, and especially social media. These networks too, are a marvel. But they also carry a kind of poison with them. The mind fed from those sources learns to subsist happily on quick reactions, easy certainties, one-liners, and rage.” Professor Gaudion’s article carries the metaphor into a new context, and considers what should be done when the poison being transported through the pipes is directed at members of the U.S. military.
Amy C. Gaudion is an associate professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law as well as the founder of Dickinson Law’s annual cyberspace simulation with the U.S. Army War College. Her scholarship focuses on national security law, cyberspace, and civilian-military relations, and she leads Dickinson Law’s national security and cyberspace programs.