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A Blogger's Manifesto

Free Speech and Censorship in a Digital World

Erik Ringmar author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Anthem Press

Published:15th Oct '07

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An expansive and captivating interrogation of free speech in the modern world, exploring the limitations of the digital age.

There was never such a thing as true freedom of speech. In the past, in order to speak freely you had to have access to a printing press, a newspaper, a radio or a TV station. Until now. The age of blogging has begun. The internet revolution has given us all a chance to be irreverent, blasphemous and ungrammatical in public. We can reveal secrets, blow whistles, spill beans or just make stuff up. The old elites don't like it. In fact, they really hate it. Should we fall silent? Absolutely not! Let's demand that modern liberal society lives by the principles it claims to embrace. Bloggers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your gags.

'Fun to read... It makes a strong case for the democratic power of blogging and the internet, a form of empowerment for the voiceless.'Ronald Eyerman, Professor of Sociology, Yale University and author of 'Myth, Meaning and Performance''Anyone eager to understand how cyberspace has changed our possibilities and how it often remains trapped in grim social contexts - would do well to read Erik Ringmar's A Blogger's Manifesto.'Norman Solomon, author of 'War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death'

ISBN: 9781843312888

Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 26mm

Weight: 454g

160 pages