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slides for Evgeny Morozov's TED talk about Internet & democracyTRANSCRIPT
Evgeny Morozov
TED Global 2009
Praise for Belarus...
“Last outpost of tyranny in Europe!”
Condoleezza Rice
“Not free!” Freedom House
"A model social state like the one we're beginning to create!"
Hugo ChavezPhoto: Lhoon/Flickr CC
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Information Revolution Marches On
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US Presidents ♥ the Internets
Photo: National Archives
Photo: White House
Photo: White House
"The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip"
Ronald Reagan, 1989
“Trying to control the Internet is like trying to nail Jell-o to the wall”
Bill Clinton, 2000
“Imagine if the Internet took hold in China. Imagine how freedom would spread"
John Lennon George Bush, 1999
“Blogs are the new faxes”
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Welcome to Cyber-Utopia!
Connectivity Connectivity X X DevicesDevices = = DemocracyDemocracy
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iPod Liberalism
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“Drop iPods, not Bombs”
Photo: United States Army\Photo: Mager Leagues/Flickr CC
Intended vs Actual
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Spin + Internet = Spinternet
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Spining vs Censoring
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China: “Elude the Cat”
Authoritarian Deliberation
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Uses of “authoritarian deliberation”
1. Generate information useful to government: wikis
2. Share the blame for failed policies with the public: spin
3. Increase legitimacy (both at home and abroad): scale
Iran: Twitter counter-revolution?
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But what about “digital natives”?
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Cyber-Activism vs Cyber-Hedonism
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Catalyst of change vs opium for the masses
HKmPUA
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Digital Renegades vs Digital Captives
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Brave New World of Cyber-Hedonism
Young Digital Mavens”, JWT/IAC, Fall 2007
Category China US % of teenagers addicted
to the Web42 18
% of teenagers with “parallel life” online
61 13
% of teenagers not feeling OK going w/t
Internet for a day25 12
% of teenagers who said Internet broadens
their sex life32 11
Hierarchy of Cyber-Needs
CAMPAIGN:Amnesty, HRW
LEARN: Wikipedia, TED
SHARE: Facebook, Twitter
TALK: Email, instant messaging, blogs
HAVE FUN: pornography, BitTorrent, YouTube
Some Right Reserved, Evgeny Morozov
Which way freedom?
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Thank you!