11 posts and columns on Evgeny Morozov

Does Social Media Help Foment Revolution? A Theory From Within Twitter.

in Social on March 18, 2011 at 2:00 am PT

This week, Othman Laraki, Twitter’s director of search and geo, proposed a “revolutionary equation” that can be tipped by a critical mass of dissent generated through social media.

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Rise of the Online Autocrats

in News on October 4, 2010 at 12:16 am PT

The tweets started arriving in August, and they did not mince words. One of the first accused the South Korean government of being “a prostitute of the United States.”

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Battling the Cyber Warmongers

in News on May 10, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

A recent simulation of a devastating cyberattack on America was crying for a Bruce Willis lead: A series of mysterious attacks–probably sanctioned by China but traced to servers in the Russian city of Irkutsk–crippled much of the national infrastructure, including air traffic, financial markets and even basic email. If this was not bad enough, an unrelated electricity outage took down whatever remained of the already unplugged East Coast.