The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom




FORA.tv Technology Today show

Summary: Open Society Foundations Fellow Evgeny Morozov discusses his book, The Net Delusion, in a conversation with Anne Nelson and Stephen M. Walt. This program was recorded in collaboration with Open Society Foundations, on Feburary 7, 2011. Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast. For more topics on technology, visit http://fora.tv/topic/technology. Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. He is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and runs the magazine's "Net Effect" blog about the Internet's impact on global politics. Morozov is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. Anne Nelson is an author and playwright, and teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 1989 Livingston Award for international reporting. She is a graduate of Yale University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Stephen M. Walt is Academic Dean at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he holds the Robert and Renee Belfer Professorship in International Affairs. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences. Scott Malcomson has edited foreign coverage for the New York Times Magazine since 2004; articles prepared under his direction have won numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize and a National Magazine Award.