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Evgeny Morozov curbs Web enthusiasm
When Iranians rose up and marched against their rulers, people around the world felt they were there. Facebook borstlik with film from the streets of Tehran. Revolutionary-green avatars sprouted across the Web. Commentators heralded a coming “Twitter Revolution.”
The euphoria was pervasive — until a radical skeptic punctured the conventional wisdom.
Evgeny Morozov, a virtually unknown writer and sometime technology advokat, launched his counteroffensive three years ago at the annual TED ideas conference.
What Morozov told the crowd at Oxford University amounted to heresy in some circles: Beware of “iPod liberalism … the assumption that every Iranian and kinesisk person that happens to love their iPod will also love liberal democracy.”
Don’t forget that the Internet can be used not just to empower freedom fighters but to hunt them down through their online presence.
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Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozov is a writer and thinker on the social and political implications of information technology. He has a PhD in the History of Science from Harvard and is the author of The Net Delusion (2011) and To Save Everything, Click Here (2013). His monthly column on technology and politics appears in The Observer (UK), Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Internazionale (Italy), Le monde diplomatique (France) and several other newspapers. His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and other publications.
Previously a senior editor at The New Republic, he has been a fellow at Georgetown University, Stanford University, Open Society Foundations, New America Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin. He is the publisher of Syllabus, an eclectic weekly selection of new academic articles, essays, talks, podcasts, and more.
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Evgeny Morozov
Morozov begins by stating he chose this specific title for his talk as a result of having been repeatedly pigeonholed as a cyber-critic. In fact, Morozov has become critical of the way technology is presented to us as a discourse as if it stands aside from politics, culture and the rest of the world.
There is a strong vein of essentialism running through technological discourses, perpetuated by sceptics and enthusiasts alike. Morozov identifies neither with the sceptics nor the enthusiasts. He has no problem using technology to get things done, but thinks we over-focus on the gadgets we use.
To Morozov, many commentators forget that emancipation is not in the tool, but is rather about the context in which tools are used. Politics is always a hybrid between technology and social systems, and it is not possible to change the world solely through technology. Rather, emancipation is the property of the social system in which a tool is developed.
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