This past week the Internet & Democracy Project was kind enough to sponsor my attendance at the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit in Budapest. It is an international gathering of the members and fans of the international blogging project Global Voices, which curates the world's blogospheres in order to increase cross-cultural understanding.
This year, the summit focused on limitations of free speech online, both technical forms of censorship like filtering and offline forms of censorship like illegal imprisonment. This touches
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I will be going to the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit in Budapest this month to moderate a panel on Citizen Media and Online Free Speech (see more information below).
Session 2: Citizen Media and Online Free Speech
The innate structure of the Internet is free: a series of personal computers, servers, and routers that produce data and transmit it around the world in seconds based on a simple series of universal protocols. It took human intervention to cage the
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A few months ago I wrote Blog for a Cause!, a guide to blog activism, for Global Voices Advocacy. The guide is now available in Arabic. Click the image to download.
I wrote this guide for Global Voices Advocacy. It explains how activists can use blogs as part of campaigns against injustice around the world. Blogging can help activists in se veral ways. It is a quick and inexpensive way to create a presence on the Internet, to disseminate information about a cause, and to organize actions to lobby decision-makers. The goal of Blog for a Cause is twofold: to inform and to inspire. The guide is designed to be accessible
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why Facebook makes the activist in me smileFor the lofty academic goals of pure research I have recently been joining online social networks, specifically Facebook, Change.org, Care2, and LinkedIn. The only one I became attached to was Facebook and actually, I am embarrassed to say, I visit the site every day.My affinity for Facebook is a bit of a surpise to me. My original reason for signing up for these networks was because I am interested in the possiblity of
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