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Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans
in the Age of Connection
Published by W. W. Norton
Available June 10 from Amazon on Kindle
Available June 17 in bookstores
Category Archives: Developing world
Cute Cats to the Rescue? Participatory Media and Political Expression
Some years back, I gave a talk at O’Reilly’s ETech conference that urged the audience to spend less time thinking up clever ways dissidents could blog secretly from inside repressive regimes and more time thinking about the importance of ordinary … Continue reading
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Who let all those Ghanaians on the Internet? Jenna Burrell on internet exclusion
Jenna Burrell, assistant professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley, is speaking today at the Berkman Center on her research on internet usage in Ghana, the subject of her (excellent) book Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Berkman, Developing world, xenophilia
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Good and bad reasons to be worried about WCIT
The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT, pronounced “wicket”) opened Monday in Dubai. If you’re heard about the conference, it’s likely because many articulate and smart proponents of an open internet have been waving arms and warning of the potential … Continue reading
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The lobbyist and the quilt
I try to keep an eye on stories about PR and lobbying firms that work on behalf of dictatorial governments, like our oil-rich friends in Equatorial Guinea and the ever-complicated nation of Rwanda. (See this recent piece by Geoffrey York … Continue reading
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Book review: Improvisational economies and a globalized building
Robert Neuwirth is bringing new insights to familiar (for him, unfamiliar for most of us) territory in his book, “Stealth of Nations“. His previous work, “Shadow Cities” was a plea to take squatter cities and informal settlements seriously, rather than … Continue reading
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Who freed Eynulla Fatullayev? And what does his release mean for Twitter activism?
Azerbaijan is far from an easy place to be an independent journalist – the nation ranks 152nd in Reporters Without Borders 2010 survey on press freedom. Even given a hostile press environment, Eynulla Fatullayev has had a particularly rough experience … Continue reading
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Civic Disobedience and the Arab Spring
I spent the past two days in Cambridge, primarily around MIT, and almost exclusively talking about the “Arab Spring” and what we’ve learned about social media and protest in authoritarian states. Early Wednesday morning, the MIT Museum hosted a “soapbox” … Continue reading
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Morozov vs.(?) Tufekci at the US Naval Academy
I was at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD yesterday, at the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference, a remarkable institution that I confess I knew nothing about before accepting an invitation to speak here. For 51 years, the Academy … Continue reading
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A world roundup
Some other stories I’m trying to follow, in addition to the news from Bahrain: There’s very little news from Libya, as protesters take to the streets, especially in the eastern city of Benghazi. Libya tightly restricts press coverage, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Developing world, Human Rights, long bookmark, Media
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Brock’s insights on the Tunisia media attention disparity
George Brock (Professor and Head of Journalism at City University London, long time writer and editor for the Times of London) has a thoughtful and helpful response to my previous post on the protests in Tunisia and my perception that … Continue reading
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