Rebecca MacKinnon
Auteur de Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
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Rebecca MacKinnon works on issues related to online free expression, privacy, and human rights as a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. She is co-founder of Global Voices, a citizen media network, and a former fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet Society. She is on the board of afficher plus the Committee to Protect Journalists and worked for 12 years as a journalist in Asia, including as CNN's Bureau Chief in Tokyo and Beijing. She lives in Washington, DC. afficher moins
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- Rebecca MacKinnon is director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation, developing a system to rank the world’s most powerful Internet, telecommunications, and other ICT sector companies on free expression and privacy criteria.
Author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom (Basic Books, 2012) MacKinnon is co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices Online. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists and was a founding board member of the Global Network Initiative. She is also a visiting affiliate at the Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for Global Communications Studies.
Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, MacKinnon was CNN’s Beijing Bureau Chief from 1998-2001 and Tokyo Bureau Chief from 2001-2003. Since leaving CNN in 2004 she he has held fellowships at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the Press and Publicy Policy, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the Open Society Foundations , Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, and the New America Foundation. In 2007-08 she taught online journalism and conducted research on Chinese Internet censorship at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre, and was a 2013 adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She received her AB magna cum laude from Harvard University and was a Fullbright scholar in Taiwan.
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Great survey of the major issues regarding Internet freedom and the many overlapping concerns of privacy, censorship, human rights, and transparency. While it covers a lot of territory the author manages to keep it readable and focused. Serves as a solid introduction to these important issues. (See also Morozov's "Net Delusion" and the somewhat dated but still helpful "Anarchist in the Library" by Vaidhyanathan).
Evgeny Morozov’s Net Delusion is the funnier/more bitter version of this book, which also makes the core point that the internet is far from inherently liberating and that its liberating aspects are under continual assault from dictatorships and democracies alike. She talks a lot about China, which designed its policies much more carefully than other regimes and is able to offer satisfactory censored experiences to many of its people, and is now exporting its technologies of control to other regimes (as, not for nothing, American companies are too). MacKinnon is interested in the slow and difficult civil-society work of fighting illiberal uses of the internet, and she is therefore more hopeful than Morozov even as her solutions are inevitably partial and vulnerable to change. (Morozov doesn’t really offer any, since that’s not his project.) I am a big fan of MacKinnon’s belief in the important synergies between liberals and radicals: “Within the global environmental movement, some organizations and initiatives have seen value in working with corporations and governments. Others are opposed to compromise and insist on radical alternatives as the only course. All points on the spectrum need to exist for progress to be made.”… (plus d'informations)
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She also addresses the moral and economic pressures on technology companies to bow toward these authoritarian regimes, even as the biggest companies (Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, and the like) spy on its users in search of ever greater profits.
Consent of the Networked also looks at the question of who should control the Internet. You will learn about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN}, the International Telecommunication Union, the Internet Governance Forum and other obscure bodies that govern the net. These bodies decide issues that can affect everyone’s usage of the World Wide Web. The current controversy over net neutrality is also covered here.
What is most inspiring and useful about this book is MacKinnon's reminder that the democratic promise of the Internet cannot be realized unless Internet users become active defending democracy; that is, we must become Netizens. Viewed within the context of governmental vs. corporate vs. "netizen" control, MacKinnon makes a strong case for a “Netizen-Centric Internet.”
I don’t agree with everything MacKinnon writes here. Some of the stories feel a little dated (though some were updated in an afterword for the paperback edition). Unlike other books I’ve read on this topic, MacKinnon is the one who urges all of us to get involved in the fight for democracy online, and offers resources to help you do just that (see the Get Involved page at www.consentofthenetworked.com). That’s the most important part of this book. Make your own voice heard.… (plus d'informations)