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Rebecca MacKinnon: Consent of the Networked

• #4: Mike Godwin (mnemonic) Thu 24 May 12 11:06 May 24, 2012
  I'm very glad to see Rebecca here. Although we've never worked together directly, I've found her contributions distinctly valuable in the work I have done with Public Knowledge and with the Wikimedia Foundation. (When I joined WMF in 2007, Rebecca was on the Advisory Board, which was exciting, and I met her in person in Taiwan that year, as I […]
• #3: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Thu 24 May 12 06:33 May 24, 2012
  One thing that's clear from your book is that the Internet can as readily enable oppression as liberation. It can be a platform for a more democratic participation in governance as well as a platform for surveillance and control. There was much excitement about the Internet's role in the "Arab Spring," is that excitement justified? Has th […]
• #2: Rebecca MacKinnon (rmackinnon) Thu 24 May 12 04:08 May 24, 2012
  10 years ago I was CNN's Tokyo Bureau Chief. 11 years ago I moved to Japan from China after living in Beijing for 9 years straight, working for CNN. In 2004 I decided to take a break from a 12-year career with CNN in Asia and became a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. I planne […]
• #1: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Tue 22 May 12 14:45 May 22, 2012
  Rebecca, could you say a little about the work you've been doing for the last decade or so, and how it inspired you to write this particular book? [Read entire topic] […]
• #0: Ted Newcomb (tcn) Mon 21 May 12 06:16 May 21, 2012
  We are fortunate to have Rebecca MacKinnon with us to discuss her new book Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. "It is time to stop arguing over whether the Internet empowers individuals and societies, and address the more fundamental and urgent question of HOW technology should be structured and governed to support the […]