For example, due to government propaganda and censorship, Chinese blogger Michael Anti did not find out the truth about Tiananmen Square until ten years after the fact. Riding the growing wave of blogging as self-expression, Parker’s characters are paddling against a huge undertow of governmental control. All of the profiles give the reader an incredible look into the nuances of dissidence in each area-like how in Cuba it is safer not to be anonymous, and how in China it is moreso okay to blog, just not to organize people via a blog.Įach individual fighting against such a large and ever-present enemy brings an heir of immediacy to the work. Detailing three countries (China, Cuba, and Russia), Parker pulls from a mix of stories from specific underground Internet activists and not only tells us the story of how they relate to dissidence on the Internet, but the story of their nation’s relationship with dissidence on the Internet. Parker writes effortlessly, staying on point and scaling in and out of the details to show connections between the smaller and larger pictures. In Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground, Emily Parker explores key activists in communist states who are creatively resisting their governments by spreading information on the Internet. Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground
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