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Informationen zum Autor Jo Glanville is Director of English PEN and joined the organization in September 2012 from Index on Censorship, where she served as an award-winning Editor since 2006. Klappentext 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. For subscription options visit: www.indexoncensorship.org: the place to turn for free up-to-the-minute free expression news and comment Winner 2008 Amnesty International Consumer Magazine of the Year Zusammenfassung This issue of Index hears from the grassroots activists, pioneering journalists and frontline bloggers who depend on new media to get the message out – and assesses its impact. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editorial - Jo Glanville PART ONE: DISPATCHES Speak No Evil - Kamila Shamsie Pakistan¿s Blasphemy Laws Are a Tool for Persecution Do Not Disturb - Charles Young The Trouble with Malta and Censorship The Urge to Classify - David L Sobel Wikileaks, Obama and Transparency Days of Anger - Salawa Ismail The Uprising in Egypt Was Not Unexpected PART TWO: THE NET EFFECT Taming Cyberspace - Evgeny Morozov The Pressure Is Growing for Greater Surveillance Online Tools of Resistance - Jillian C York Egyptians Strike back Route to Revolution - Ashraf Khalil Digital Activism Is Now a Way of Life in Egypt Crowd Control - Hu Yong Chinäs Microbloggers are Playing a Long Game Storm in a Haystack - Danny O¿Brien The Cautionary Tale of a Program that Didn¿t Live up to Its Spin Open Secrets - Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan Exposing a Closed World to Scrutiny Going Local - Ivan Sigal The Future of Freedom Online Surviving Lukashenko - James Kirchick Alternative Media Tactics in Belarus A Round-up of Technology and Censorship Stories ...
