A Blogger's Manifesto

Free Speech and Censorship in a Digital World

By (author) Erik Ringmar

Publication date:

15 October 2007

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

199x130mm
5x8"

ISBN-13: 9781843312888

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