Tuesday was my first election since 2008 without Twitter on the brain. It was, all in all, a pleasant experience. Mind you, I can’t pretend to be pleased with the results. I live in Texas, after all, so there wasn’t a single candidate I voted for who won, either locally…

This column, which I wrote with Dr. Amy Kristin Sanders from the University of Texas, originally ran in the Houston Chronicle on April 12, 2021. Now that the Texas Legislature will likely take up the bill for a vote this week, I’m posting it here on Medium. Before the 2023…

When photographers sue after Creative Commons Licenses go awry. — The scam works a little like this: A photographer posts their work online under an outdated Creative Commons license, such as version 2.0, that does not give licensees the right to fix license problems within 30 days of notice, as do the current CC 4.0 licenses. The photographers lurk until…

As we wonder why the TCU Board of Trustees continues to include Rep. Roger Williams — a Texas Republican who has been pushing conspiracy theories about election fraud that emboldened right-wing insurrectionists last week, and then voted twice to overturn the election hours after their siege of the Capitol building…

Among parents sending their kids to college this fall — and I’m one of them — I’m seeing a pretty common complaint on the parent Facebook groups and chats and the like. Why, if my kid is going to be taking most of their classes online, am I still having…

At a virtual town hall meeting this week, TCU Chancellor Victor Boschini addressed several questions submitted from faculty and staff, nearly 900 of whom attended the session. …

At the Texas legislative hearing on Mass Violence Prevention & Public Safety on Thursday, Rep. Joseph Moody of El Paso asked me whether Texas Penal Code §22.07, particularly part (a)(5), had been found to be overbroad or otherwise invalidated by courts on First Amendment grounds. I told him I wasn’t…

Today, I spoke to a panel of legislators from the Texas House of Representatives at Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch. I was on the second session, which included Dr. Richard Pineda from the University of Texas at El Paso, and Dr. Jared Schroeder, a journalism professor at SMU. We had…

Several years ago, I was invited to submit to a research paper competition about the next 20 years of communication law. But I thought, why stop at 20? Why not think about the law 50 years from now, or 100, or 1,000? …