Reporters Without Borders: Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, v2 (2008)
Filed under brochure | Tags: · activism, blogging, censorship, journalism
The handbook offers practical advice and techniques on how to create a blog, make entries and get the blog to show up in search engine results. It gives clear explanations about blogging for all those whose online freedom of expression is subject to restrictions, and it shows how to sidestep the censorship measures imposed by certain governments, with a practical example that demonstrates the use of the censorship circumvention software Tor.
The leaders of authoritarian countries are becoming more and suspicious of bloggers, these men and women who, although not journalists, publish news and information online and who, worse still, often tackle subjects the so-called traditional media dare not cover. In some countries, blogs have become an important new source of news. It is to protect this source that Reporters Without Borders has updated its handbook.
Publisher Reporters Without Borders, Paris, 2008
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Comment (0)Jordan Crandall (ed.): Under Fire 1 & 2. The Organization and Representation of Violence (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, democracy, journalism, mass media, military, politics, war
Through a series of discussions about an array of issues–battle simulation techniques and news programming, democracy and violence, the privatization of the military, and militarized bodies–Jordan Crandall explores the organization and representation of contemporary armed conflict. Moderated by Crandall, Under Fire 1 is a compilation of a series of dialogues that occurred online from January 25 through April 19, 2004 between artists, political scientists, critics, activists, and journalists around the central theme.
Publisher Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2005
ISBN 90-73362-61-X
Length 96 pages
Under Fire 2 is the second collection edited by Jordan Crandall in an ongoing project that explores the organization and representation of armed conflict. Emerging from online dialogues among a group of artists, theorists, scientists, critics, activists, and journalists during three months of 2004 and reorganized thematically, the discussions in Under Fire 2 aim to offer new insights into symptomatic violence. The book covers issues such as the privatization of the military and the contributions of commercial and independent news media, as well as representations from artistic, literary, and popular entertainment sources, to our cultural perception of conflict. Rather than relying on discourses based on Western conceptions of modernity, the project is dedicated to opening up new historical perspectives, exploring the potential of Islamist points of view as sources of critical and political debate.
Publisher Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2005
ISBN 9073362652, 9789073362659
Length 112 pages
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Keith Cary Curtis: After the Software Wars (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · floss, free software, hardware, software
Given the technology that’s already available, we should have cars that drive us around, in absolute safety, while we lounge in the back and sip champagne. All we need is a video camera on the roof, plugged into a PC, right? We have all the necessary hardware, and have had it for years, but don’t yet have robot-driven cars because we don’t have the software. This book explains how we can build better software and all get our own high-tech chauffeur.
Publisher Keithcu Press, 2009
ISBN 0578011891, 9780578011899
Length 300 pages
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