Liberation vs. control:The future of cyberspace

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 43-57

  Deibert, Ronald ^a   Rohozinski, Rafal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE

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EID: 77958589131     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: 10863214     Source Type: Journal    
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References (25)

1. Larry Diamond, "Liberation Technology," Journal of Democracy 21 (July 2010): 70-84.
2. Elia Zureik et al., eds., Surveillance, Privacy, and the Globalization of Personal Information (McQuill-Queen's University Press, 2010).
3. Our conception of "alternative rationalities" is inspired by Ulrich Beck et al., Reflexive Modernization (Cambridge: Polity, 1994). The concept of alternative rationalities has its origins in Max Weber's work and is further developed in critical and postmodern theories.
4. For the concept of "dynamic density," see John Gerard Ruggie, "Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity: Toward a Neorealist Synthesis," World Politics 35 (January 1983): 261-85.
5. A. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, and Tony Porter, Private Authority and International Affairs (New York: SUNY Press, 1999).
6. Ronald J. Deibert, Rafal Rohozinski, John Palfrey, and Jonathan Zittrain, eds., Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights and Rule in Cyberspace (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010).
7. See, for example, "Iran's Twitter Revolution," Washington Times, 16 June 2009; available at www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/16/ irans-twitter-revolution.
8. Chrisanthi Avgerou, "Recognising Alternative Rationalities in the Deployment of Information Systems," Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries 3 (2000); available at www.ejisdc.org/ojs2/ index.php/ejisdc/article/view/19.
9. Rafal Rohozinski, "Bullets to Bytes: Reflections on ICTs and 'Local' Conflict," in Robert Latham, ed., Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship between Information Technology and Security (New York: New Press, 2003), 222.
10. Information Warfare Monitor and Shadowserver Foundation, Shadows in the Cloud: Investigating Cyber Espionage 2.0, JR03-2010, 6 April 2010;
11. Information Warfare Monitor, Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network, JR02-2009, 29 March 2009.
12. Ronald Deibert, Rafal Rohozinski, and Masashi Crete-Nishihata, "Cyclones in Cyberspace: Information Shaping and Denial in the 2008 South Ossetia War," ms. forthcoming.
13. Ronald Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski, "Risking Security: The Policies and Paradoxes of Cyberspace Security," International Political Sociology 4 (March 2010): 15-32.
14. Stephen Walt, "Is the Cyber Threat Overblown?" Foreign Policy, 3 March 2010; available at http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/03/30/is- the-cyber-threat-overblown.
15. Deibert et al., Access Controlled.
16. The following section draws from an earlier article of ours: "Cyber Wars," Index on Censorship, March 2010; available at www.indexoncensorship. org/2010/03/cyberwars-technology-deiber.
17. See http://en.rsf.org/pakistan-court-orders-facebook-blocked-19-05-2010, 37524.html.
18. See www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/4963823/ YouTubeblocked-in-Bangladesh-after-guard-mutiny.html.
19. See www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/jul/03/lebanon- facebook-president-insult.
20. See www.latimes.com/technology/sns-ap-lt-venezuela-twitter,0,6311483. story.
21. "IRGC Consortium Takes Majority Equity in Iran's Telecoms," 5 October 2009, www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidv52n40-3NC06/ IRGC%20Consortium%20Takes%20Majority%20Equity%20In%20Iran%26rsquo%3Bs%20Telecom s.
22. See http://opennet.net/sex-social-mores-and-keyword-filtering-microsoft- bingarabian-countries.
23. See http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech-and-web/the-web/ article1391469.ece.
24. See www.infowar-monitor.net/2009/10/0day-civil-society-and-cyber- security.
25. See www.govinfosecurity.com/p-print.php?t=a&id=1786.