Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fall Semester, 2010
MIT 6.805/STS085: Ethics and Law on the Electronic
Frontier
Preparation for week of class on November 29
Global internet censorship
Reading
Read the following before class:
This week's class will look at internet impact
several countries and government rections like blocking and filtering. For preparation, please read:
-
Mehdi Yahyanejad (2010), "The
effectiveness of Internet for informing
and mobilizing in the events after the Iranian presidential
elections",
- Read the Supreme Court ruling in Rebecca MacKinnon (Oct. 2010),
"Networked Authoritarianism in China and Beyond: Implications for
global Internet freedom"
- Ronald Diebert (2010), "Beyond National-level Filtering: International
Mechanisms and Dynamics of Cyberspace Controls". This paper is not being
distributed separately.
-
alkasir for Mapping and Curcumventing Cyber-Censorship: Map. Give it time to generate the
map and to laod.