{"id":133,"date":"2005-02-22T17:35:23","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T22:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=133"},"modified":"2005-02-22T17:35:23","modified_gmt":"2005-02-22T22:35:23","slug":"global-blogger-action-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/global-blogger-action-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Blogger Action Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The BBC is reporting an effort by the Committee To Protect Bloggers<\/a> to mobilize the “blogsphere” (or as some call it, the “blogosphere”) in support of two imprisoned Iranian bloggers<\/a>. (The article calls them “cyber-dissidents.”) I’m wary of supporting a cause I know so little about, but when Amnesty International responds to the situation (they’re quoted in the BBC article) I do take it very seriously. Reuters is now reporting<\/a> that one of the bloggers, an Iranian journalist named Arash Sigarchi, has today been sentenced to fourteen years in prison.<\/p>\n

So a one-month old “Committee To Protect Bloggers” can, with one call to action, quickly get the attention not only of the international press but also of UN individuals concerned with Internet governance issues. Reading through the comments on the CTPB blog on this effort is itself an education. One commenter, if he’s for real, offers particularly nuanced advice<\/a> about how to make this kind of protest most effective. His name–“vb”–leads to what appears to be a preliminary report by the Working Group on Internet Governance<\/a> that will eventually be submitted to the World Summit on the Information Society. The report is dated February 21, 2005–i.e., yesterday.<\/p>\n

I am awestruck by the speed and pervasiveness these things represent, and I wonder how any institution of higher education can afford not to offer students rich, focused opportunities to reflect on, and shape, these emerging technologies. I hope that the blogosphere is indeed a potent force for human rights, but whether or not that turns out to be the case, we owe it to our students to help them reflect on the phenomenon we’re witnessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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