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The Net Effect
The Limits of Digital Freedom

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March 2011 | 192 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
As digital technology continues to transform the culture of activism and access to information - from revolution in Egypt to reporting on the secret services in Russia - Index on Censorship assesses the ways and means of using new media to get the word out and asks if the United States is internet freedom's best friend.

Index on Censorship is an award-winning magazine, devoted to protecting and promoting free expression. International in outlook, outspoken in comment, Index on Censorship reports on free expression violations around the world, publishes banned writing and shines a light on vital free expression issues through original, challenging and intelligent commentary and analysis, publishing some of the world's finest writers.

Winner 2008 Amnesty International Consumer Magazine of the Year

Jo Glanville
Editorial
 
PART ONE: DISPATCHES
Kamila Shamsie
Speak No Evil
Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws Are a Tool for Persecution

 
Charles Young
Do Not Disturb
The Trouble with Malta and Censorship

 
David L Sobel
The Urge to Classify
Wikileaks, Obama and Transparency

 
Salawa Ismail
Days of Anger
The Uprising in Egypt Was Not Unexpected

 
 
PART TWO: THE NET EFFECT
Evgeny Morozov
Taming Cyberspace
The Pressure Is Growing for Greater Surveillance Online

 
Jillian C York
Tools of Resistance
Egyptians Strike back

 
Ashraf Khalil
Route to Revolution
Digital Activism Is Now a Way of Life in Egypt

 
Hu Yong
Crowd Control
China's Microbloggers are Playing a Long Game

 
Danny O'Brien
Storm in a Haystack
The Cautionary Tale of a Program that Didn't Live up to Its Spin

 
Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan
Open Secrets
Exposing a Closed World to Scrutiny

 
Ivan Sigal
Going Local
The Future of Freedom Online

 
James Kirchick
Surviving Lukashenko
Alternative Media Tactics in Belarus

 
 
A Round-up of Technology and Censorship Stories

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