When: Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Time: 6:30pm-8:15pm
Where: New America NYC
199 Lafayette St, Suite 3B
Manhattan, NY
Cost: Free w. RSVP
From New America NYC:
Join New America NYC for a book launch and conversation about how prominent dissidents and average citizens around the world use the Internet to challenge authority.
In China, online critics write in code to spread the truths their government wants to hide. In Cuba, bloggers band together to get a fellow activist out of jail. 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 “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. This book introduces us to an army of bloggers and tweeters—generals and foot soldiers alike. They refuse to be intimidated by surveillance cameras or citizen informers. Even as they navigate the risks of authoritarian life, they feel free.