![]() ![]() New America and Future Tense hosted a conversation about how prominent dissidents and average citizens around the world use the Internet to challenge authority. Even as they navigate the risks of authoritarian life, they feel free. They refuse to be intimidated by surveillance cameras or citizen informers. Emily Parker is a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground. This book introduces us to an army of bloggers and tweeters - generals and foot soldiers alike. In Now I Know Who My Comrades Are, former State Department policy advisor and Wall Street Journal writer Emily Parker provides on-the-ground accounts of how social media is transforming lives and challenging governments in China, Russia, and Cuba. ![]() And in Russia, a lone blogger launches online campaigns against the country’s most powerful companies, and rises to become the most prominent opposition figure since the fall of the Soviet Union. In Cuba, bloggers band together to get a fellow activist out of jail. ![]() ![]() In China, online critics write in code to spread the truths their government wants to hide. Now I Know Who My Comrades Are Voices from the Internet Underground Author (s) Emily Parker Publisher Sarah Crichton Books (Macmillan US Trade) Format Reflowable Whats This Print ISBN 9780374176952, 0374176957 eText ISBN 9780374709341, 0374709343 9.374709341 Buy eTextbook Lifetime 9.99 9. ![]()
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