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…
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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…
Silencing the opposition
Internet censorship is increasing in yet another reliable US-dictatorship, Egypt. China’s Golden Shield is becoming a model for repressive regimes everywhere.
Taking turns between people
In a conservative country like Egypt, the idea that couples are using the web to co-ordinate couple-swapping parties is both shocking and slightly revolutionary.
The Facebook insurgency
How Egyptian activists are using Facebook to challenge the US-backed dictatorship.
A fragmented Islam
How is blogging affecting the narrative and public image of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?
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:
Have blog, will rebel
The following news story and interview, by Rob Bates (photo by Alan Place), appears in this week’s Wentworth Courier newspaper: Controversial author, journalist and blogger Antony Loewenstein will host an event at Paddington’s Fringe Bar to discuss internet censorship and the brave few who rise against it. Loewenstein’s first book, My Israel Question, received mixed…