Today, technology is being used frequently as a censorship tool as well as a way of getting around censorship. The technology and censorship reading list combines a number of articles released over a twenty-year period on the interference technology can have on free expression and the technological advances meaning censors are being more easily evaded. Includes Bibi van der Zee on the impact of Twitter in driving global political change.
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Technology and censorship articles
Mike Godwin, December 2014; vol. 43, 4: pp. 106-109
Twenty years on, Mike Godwin revisits his article on the arrival of the online world and assesses what he got right, and what challenges remain today
Technology Bytes Back: Censorship and the new communication order by Nan Levinson
Nan Levinson, February 1993; vol. 22, 2: pp. 4
In the early days of the internet, Nan Levinson discusses new technologies and their use in the fight against censorship
Cyber Wars by Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski
Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohizinski, March 2010; vol. 39, 1: pp. 79-90
A look at the battle for online space
Virtually Free by Brian Winston and Paul Walton
Brian Winston and Paul Walton, January 1996; vol. 25, 1: pp. 78-83
One director and one fellow from Cardiff University’s school of journalism discuss the suppression of new technology
Global View:Â the power of noise in the fight against censorship by Jodie Ginsberg
Jodie Ginsberg, December 2014; vol. 43, 4: pp. 51-52
In her quarterly column, Index on Censorship’s chief executive looks at people power and the power of noise
Twitter Triumphs by Bibi van der Zee
Bibi van der Zee, November 2009; vol. 38, 4: pp. 97-102
Journalist and author Bibi van der Zee assesses the impact of Twitter on political change
Future Web: The N-Generation by Don Tapscott
Don Tapscott, November 2007; vol. 36, 4: pp. 51
Don Tapscott looks optimistically at the web’s potential for opening up global information-sharing
Going Mobile by Danica Radovanovic
Danica Radovanovic, December 2012; vol. 41, 4: pp 112-116
Danica Radovanovic on the new role phones are playing in spreading news and information
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