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Our latest podcast episode is with my good friend Tin Geber!
Our latest podcast episode is with my good friend Tin Geber!
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Today marks my 7-year anniversary (“Snoo-versary” in company parlance) with Reddit and I’ve never been more excited or motivated. From a series-B…
Today marks my 7-year anniversary (“Snoo-versary” in company parlance) with Reddit and I’ve never been more excited or motivated. From a series-B…
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Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism
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How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy (out March 2021!)
What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. From the online calls to arms in the thick of the Arab Spring to the contemporary…How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy (out March 2021!)
What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. From the online calls to arms in the thick of the Arab Spring to the contemporary front line of misinformation, Jillian York charts the war over our digital rights. She looks at both how the big corporations have become unaccountable censors, and the devastating impact it has had on those who have been censored.
In Silicon Values, leading campaigner Jillian York, looks at how our rights have become increasingly undermined by the major corporations desire to harvest our personal data and turn it into profit. She also looks at how governments have used the same technology to monitor citizens and threatened our ability to communicate. As a result our daily lives, and private thoughts, are being policed in an unprecedented manner. Who decides the difference between political debate and hate speech? How does this impact on our identity, our ability to create communities and to protest? Who regulates the censors? In response to this threat to our democracy, York proposes a user-powered movement against the platforms that demands change and a new form of ownership over our own data.
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Human Rights in the Age of Platforms (Chapter)
MIT Press
Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users form and express opinions, encounter information, debate, disagree, mobilize, and maintain their privacy. What are the human rights implications of an online domain managed by privately owned platforms? According to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, adopted by the UN Human Right Council in 2011, businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights and…
Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users form and express opinions, encounter information, debate, disagree, mobilize, and maintain their privacy. What are the human rights implications of an online domain managed by privately owned platforms? According to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, adopted by the UN Human Right Council in 2011, businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights and to carry out human rights due diligence. But this goal is dependent on the willingness of states to encode such norms into business regulations and of companies to comply. In this volume, contributors from across law and internet and media studies examine the state of human rights in today's platform society.
The contributors consider the “datafication” of society, including the economic model of data extraction and the conceptualization of privacy. They examine online advertising, content moderation, corporate storytelling around human rights, and other platform practices. Finally, they discuss the relationship between human rights law and private actors, addressing such issues as private companies' human rights responsibilities and content regulation.
Contributors: Anja Bechmann, Fernando Bermejo, Agnès Callamard, Mikkel Flyverbom, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Molly K. Land, Tarlach McGonagle, Jens-Erik Mai, Joris van Hoboken, Glen Whelan, Jillian C. York, Shoshana Zuboff, Ethan ZuckermanAndere Autor:innenVeröffentlichung anzeigen -
The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age (Chapter)
University of Minnesota Press
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Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism and Society
Palgrave
Revelations published by the whistleblower platform WikiLeaks, including the releases of U.S. diplomatic cables in what became referred to as 'Cablegate', put WikiLeaks into the international spotlight and sparked intense about the role and impact of leaks in a digital era. Beyond WikiLeaks opens a space to reflect on the broader implications across political and media fields, and on the transformations that result from new forms of leak journalism and transparency activism. A select group of…
Revelations published by the whistleblower platform WikiLeaks, including the releases of U.S. diplomatic cables in what became referred to as 'Cablegate', put WikiLeaks into the international spotlight and sparked intense about the role and impact of leaks in a digital era. Beyond WikiLeaks opens a space to reflect on the broader implications across political and media fields, and on the transformations that result from new forms of leak journalism and transparency activism. A select group of renowned scholars, international experts, and WikiLeaks 'insiders' discuss the consequences of the WikiLeaks saga for traditional media, international journalism, freedom of expression, policymaking, civil society, social change, and international politics. From short insider reports to elaborate and theoretically informed academic texts, the different chapters provide critical assessments of the current historical juncture of our mediatized society and offer outlooks of the future. Authors include, amongst others, Harvard University's Yochai Benkler, Graham Murdoch of Loughborough University, net activism scholar, Gabriella Coleman, the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jillian York, and Guardian editor, Chris Elliott. The book also includes a conversation between philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, and WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, and its prologue is written by Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Icelandic MP and editor of the WikiLeaks video, `Collateral Murder`.
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State Power 2.0 Authoritarian Entrenchment and Political Engagement Worldwide
Ashgate
Digital media and online social networking applications have changed the way in which dissent is organized with social movement leaders using online applications and digital content systems to organize collective action, activate local protest groups, network with international social movements and share their political perspectives. In the past, authoritarian regimes could control broadcast media in times of political crisis by destroying newsprint supplies, seizing radio and television…
Digital media and online social networking applications have changed the way in which dissent is organized with social movement leaders using online applications and digital content systems to organize collective action, activate local protest groups, network with international social movements and share their political perspectives. In the past, authoritarian regimes could control broadcast media in times of political crisis by destroying newsprint supplies, seizing radio and television stations, and blocking phone calls. It is much more difficult to control media in the digital age though there have certainly been occasions when states have successfully shut down their digital networks.
What causes state-powers to block internet access, disable digital networks or even shut off internet access? How is it done, what is the impact and how do dissidents attempt to fight back?
In this timely and accessible volume a collection of high profile, international scholars answer these key questions using cases from Israel, Iran, Russia, Morocco, Vietnam and Kuwait and assess the political economy of the actors, institutions and regimes involved and effected by the state-management and control of digital networks.
Chapter: Information Infrastructure and Social Control: Origins of the Tunisian internet, Katherine Maher and Jillian C. YorkAndere Autor:innenVeröffentlichung anzeigen -
The Arab Digital Vanguard: How a Decade of Blogging Contributed to a Year of Revolution
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
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Social Media and the Activist Toolkit: User Agreements, Corporate Interests, and the Information Infrastructure of Modern Social Movements
Journal of Communication
The uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere have been credited in part to the creative use of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Yet the information policies of the firms behind social media can inhibit activists and empower authoritarian regimes. Analysis of Facebook's response to Egypt's “We Are All Khaled Said” group, YouTube's policy exemption for videos coming from Syria, Moroccan loyalist response to the online presence of atheists, and the activities of the Syrian…
The uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere have been credited in part to the creative use of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Yet the information policies of the firms behind social media can inhibit activists and empower authoritarian regimes. Analysis of Facebook's response to Egypt's “We Are All Khaled Said” group, YouTube's policy exemption for videos coming from Syria, Moroccan loyalist response to the online presence of atheists, and the activities of the Syrian Electronic Army illustrate how prohibitions on anonymity, community policing practices, campaigns from regime loyalists, and counterinsurgency tactics work against democracy advocates. These problems arise from the design and governance challenges facing large-scale, revenue-seeking social media enterprises.
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Introduction: Global Information Society Watch 2011
The Association for Progressive Communications/Hivos
Early visionaries imagined the internet as a borderless world where the rule of law and the norms of the so-called physical world did not apply. Free expression and free association were envisioned as entitlements, a feature of cyberspace rather than rights to be asserted.
These early conceptions quickly gave way to the realisation that, just as the internet was embraced by people, so would it be controlled: by corporations, by policy makers, by governments, the latter of which began…Early visionaries imagined the internet as a borderless world where the rule of law and the norms of the so-called physical world did not apply. Free expression and free association were envisioned as entitlements, a feature of cyberspace rather than rights to be asserted.
These early conceptions quickly gave way to the realisation that, just as the internet was embraced by people, so would it be controlled: by corporations, by policy makers, by governments, the latter of which began asserting control over the internet early on, enacting borders to cyberspace and preventing the free flow of information, not unlike the physical borders that prevent free movement between nations.
For more than a decade, academics and activists have dissected and debated the various challenges to a free and open net. But the use of digital tools in the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as the subsequent restrictions placed on them by governments, have inspired new public discourse on the subject, bringing to light the importance of and highlighting new challenges to internet freedom.
In Tunisia and in Egypt, the ability to organise and share information online proved vital to many in organising the revolutions that eventually led to the downfall of both countries’ regimes. There, and in Syria, Viet Nam, Iran, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and beyond, the videos and images disseminated from protests have demonstrated precisely why online freedom must be a policy imperative. -
Culture Smart! Morocco: The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture
Kuperard
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and…
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.
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Onlinecensorship.org
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Knight News Challenge
Knight Foundation
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Best of Blogs - English
Deutsche Welle
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Open Rights Group
Advisory Council Member
–HeuteThe Open Rights Group is a UK-based organisation that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms by campaigning on digital rights issues and by fostering a community of grassroots activists.
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International Free Expression Project
International Advisory Board Member
–HeuteIFEP works with with artists, activists, storytellers, innovators, teachers, organizations and people of all types and at all levels of society to encourage creative expression and amplify the message that, if you stand by when someone else is silenced, you too may be silenced one day. IFEP has launched four initiatives to spread the word.
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SMEX
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Open Technology Fund
Advisory Council Member
–HeuteThe Open Technology Fund (OTF) is an independent non-profit organization committed to advancing global Internet freedom. OTF supports projects focused on counteracting repressive censorship and surveillance, enabling citizens worldwide to exercise their fundamental human rights online.
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R-Shief
Advisory Board Member
–HeuteA non-profit lab that provides data-centric models and tools for research, publication, and cultural production on the Middle East. http://www.r-shief.org/affiliates
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re:publica
Program Committee
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IFEX Council
Council Member (2015-2023) , Deputy Convener (2019-2023)
–IFEX is a nexus for free expression expertise contributed by over 100 member organisations, spanning 70 countries, and committed to collaboration and transformative advocacy.
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re:publica
Program Committee
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Web We Want
Steering Committee Member
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Global Voices Online
Member, Board of Directors
–Since 2007, I have volunteered with Global Voices in various capacities: as a writer on the Middle East/North Africa team and for Global Voices Advocacy, as a sub-editor when needed. In 2011, I joined the Board of Directors as a community representative.
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Pizzigati Prize Committee
Committee Member
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RightsCon
Programming Committee Member
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Internews - Global Internet Policy Project
Advisory Board Member
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Engine Room
Founding Advisor, Sounding Board
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Freedom Online Coalition
Steering Committee
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Freedom Online Coalition Annual Conference
Program Committee
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Now that I've finally posted something, I suppose I'm overdue for some updates. Our team has been hard at work collaborating with global civil…
Now that I've finally posted something, I suppose I'm overdue for some updates. Our team has been hard at work collaborating with global civil…
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Tl;dr: It's been a good day for user rights! Remember that complaint we submitted against LinkedIn back in February for targeting users based on…
Tl;dr: It's been a good day for user rights! Remember that complaint we submitted against LinkedIn back in February for targeting users based on…
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As of today, I'm a permanent resident of Germany, the country where I've spent the last ten years, with the right to live and work anywhere in the EU…
As of today, I'm a permanent resident of Germany, the country where I've spent the last ten years, with the right to live and work anywhere in the EU…
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I just accepted a book deal with Beacon Press to publish my first full-length book. Tentatively called Transaction Denied, my book explores how the…
I just accepted a book deal with Beacon Press to publish my first full-length book. Tentatively called Transaction Denied, my book explores how the…
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My latest Speaking Freely interview is with Nompilo Simanje, who says that free expression "enables transparency and accountability, but also holding…
My latest Speaking Freely interview is with Nompilo Simanje, who says that free expression "enables transparency and accountability, but also holding…
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There hasn’t felt like a good time to share this given everything going on in the world right now, but I guess there won’t be in the next few weeks….…
There hasn’t felt like a good time to share this given everything going on in the world right now, but I guess there won’t be in the next few weeks….…
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In some personal/professional/general joy of learning news....I am now officially a Dr. (though not when it comes to emergencies on planes)
In some personal/professional/general joy of learning news....I am now officially a Dr. (though not when it comes to emergencies on planes)
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This Speaking Freely interview with Mary Aileen Diez Bacalso was my most touching to date. You absolutely must hear her story…
This Speaking Freely interview with Mary Aileen Diez Bacalso was my most touching to date. You absolutely must hear her story…
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Life / work update! I’m very excited to share that I am now working as an expert advisor to support public interest organisations and governments -…
Life / work update! I’m very excited to share that I am now working as an expert advisor to support public interest organisations and governments -…
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