Comments on: New Book Investigates the Role of Bloggers in Authoritarian Regimes http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog/2008/08/25/new-book-investigates-the-role-of-bloggers-in-authoritarian-regimes/ Thoughts from the Internet and Democracy Project team at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:33:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: How web rights are coming | Antony Loewenstein http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog/2008/08/25/new-book-investigates-the-role-of-bloggers-in-authoritarian-regimes/comment-page-1/#comment-2614 How web rights are coming | Antony Loewenstein Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:29:47 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog/?p=234#comment-2614 [...] internationally (all of it covered on this site and the book’s website). As a great start, here’s a post from Harvard University’s Berkman Centre for Internet and [...] [...] internationally (all of it covered on this site and the book’s website). As a great start, here’s a post from Harvard University’s Berkman Centre for Internet and [...]

]]> By: Bruce http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog/2008/08/25/new-book-investigates-the-role-of-bloggers-in-authoritarian-regimes/comment-page-1/#comment-906 Bruce Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:35:57 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog/?p=234#comment-906 Hi Antony, All fair points that our research bears out as well. Look forward to the book Sept. 1. Hi Antony,

All fair points that our research bears out as well. Look forward to the book Sept. 1.

]]> By: Antony Loewenstein http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog/2008/08/25/new-book-investigates-the-role-of-bloggers-in-authoritarian-regimes/comment-page-1/#comment-903 Antony Loewenstein Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:25:50 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog/?p=234#comment-903 Greetings from Sydney, Thanks very much for your kind mention of my new book (out September 1.) As I explain throughout the work, the internet is not in itself a democratising force, but provides tools for activists, dissidents, bloggers etc to challenge authoritarianism and one-party state power (even if many people in the countries I visited are more interested in meeting girls than revolution.) I also challenge the Western media's insistence on seeing countries as either "enemies" or "allies." It's a compelling read, so hope readers will enjoy it. Greetings from Sydney,
Thanks very much for your kind mention of my new book (out September 1.)
As I explain throughout the work, the internet is not in itself a democratising force, but provides tools for activists, dissidents, bloggers etc to challenge authoritarianism and one-party state power (even if many people in the countries I visited are more interested in meeting girls than revolution.)
I also challenge the Western media’s insistence on seeing countries as either “enemies” or “allies.”
It’s a compelling read, so hope readers will enjoy it.

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