Washington Prism is a “weekly on-line journal of culture, politics and public affairs in Persian [and English], dedicated to bringing the news and views of concern from the United States and beyond to the Persian speaking countries and communities in an accurate, comprehensive and analytical manner.” I was interviewed recently by Hamid Tehrani about my…
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Online Journalism Blog on The Blogging Revolution
Online Journalism Blog is one of the world’s leading spaces for discussing new media and citizen journalism. One of its key players, Paul Bradshaw, who lectures in the UK, has written the following piece about my book, The Blogging Revolution: From the Baghdad Blogger to Twittering the Chinese Earthquake, plenty has been written about the…
The Sydney Morning Herald on The Blogging Revolution
The following book review of The Blogging Revolution in the Sydney Morning Herald, by Stephen Hutcheon, was published on 1 November: In his first book, My Israel Question, Sydney author, journalist and blogger Antony Loewenstein grapple-tackled his way through the minefields of Zionism and the Jewish diaspora. In his second, The Blogging Revolution, he parachutes…
Mideast Youth on blogging
Mideast Youth is an essential Bahrain-based portal for news, views and activism about online freedom in the Muslim world. I was interviewed this week about my book, The Blogging Revolution, and what online players can do to highlight ever-tightening censorship.
Standing up to growing intrusion
The Global Network Initiative is a new idea designed to tackle the growing issue of censorship: From the Americas to Europe to the Middle East to Africa and Asia, companies in the information and communications industries face increasing government pressure to comply with domestic laws and policies that require censorship and disclosure of personal information…
You can’t stop the debate
How to censor online speech one step at a time: A Turkish court has blocked access to the popular blog hosting service Blogger (Blogger.com and Blogspot.com owned by Google), since Friday, October 24th, 2008. According to BasBasBas.com, a Dutch blogger based in Istanbul, who alerted us to the issue: It is suspected that the reason…
Big Brother grows up
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Chinese government’s latest measure to reinforce surveillance of Internet café users, who will henceforth have to have their mugshot taken and their ID card swiped by a Customer Registration Device to be installed in all of Beijing’s estimated 1,500 Internet cafés by the end of the year.
From Canberra to Tehran
Following the news that Australia intends to censor the internet for arguably spurious reasons, the story deepens: The Federal Government is attempting to silence critics of its controversial plan to censor the internet, which experts say will break the internet while doing little to stop people from accessing illegal material such as child pornography. Internet…
The blogging revolution that’s changing the world
The following feature, by Pam Walker, appeared in the Hub newspaper on October 13: Few would now deny the growing power of the internet and its appeal to younger readers who are turning their backs on mainstream media in favour of online content, especially blogs. Antony Loewenstein, Australian journalist and author of My Israel Question,…
Sydney launch of The Blogging Revolution
The Blogging Revolution launched in Sydney in late September at leading independent bookshop Gleebooks. It was recorded and screened on ABC2 and is now available online below. I was in conversation with leading media commentator Kate Crawford: