[26.04.10] A Twitter Revolution without revolutionaries?
Cancelled due to the uncertainty in air trafic: The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs [NUPI] has the great pleasure of inviting you to a seminar with Evgeny Morozov from the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and editor of Foreign Policy Magazine blog NetEffect:
A Twitter Revolution without revolutionaries
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What we know and what we don't know about the impact of the Internet on authoritarian states
It's become very common for pundits and politicians alike to laud the Internet as the ultimate technology of liberation that could crush authoritarian regimes and replace them with democracies. We have seen a barrage of such predictions in the wake of the so-called "Twitter revolution" in Iran. But is it really true? How are authoritarian governments responding to the Internet threat? Could the Internet be the very technology that would prolong their stay in power? In this talk, Evgeny Morozov, a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and a Yahoo! Fellow at Georgetown University, will examine how far we can go in predicting the Internet's true impact on authoritarianism.
Evgeny Morozov is Yahoo! Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and editor of Foreign Policy Magazine blog NetEffect. His research focuses on the political effect of the Internet, eDemocracy and cyberwar.
Lecture time: 13.30-15.00