Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace

by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan L. Zittrain

Overview

Experts examine censorship, surveillance, and resistance across Asia, from China and India to Malaysia and the Philippines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262298049
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	11/01/2011
Series:	Information Revolution and Global Politics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ronald Deibert is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where he is Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs. John Palfrey is the Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a faculty codirector of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives. Rafal Rohozinski is a Principal with the SecDev Group, a global strategy and research analytics firm, and a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he cofounded the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and Professor of Computer Science at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is the author of The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It. Deibert, Palfrey, Rohozinski, and Zittrain are the coeditors of Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (2008) and Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (2010), both published by the MIT Press.

What People are Saying About This

Siva Vaidhyanathan

The era of a free and open global Internet is long over — if it ever existed. The solid research and stirring prose in this collection should empower those of us who would like to see a real global Internet rise from the patchwork of state and corporate controls over digital media.

Philip N. Howard

This team has consistently produced the most important research on how and why technology matters in contemporary politics. With unique investigative tools, policy savvy, and a normative commitment to exposing the ways that tough regimes use digital media to control civil society, Access Contested demonstrates that in many ways, information technology is politics.

From the Publisher

"The era of a free and open global Internet is long over — if it ever existed. The solid research and stirring prose in this collection should empower those of us who would like to see a real global Internet rise from the patchwork of state and corporate controls over digital media." — Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)