Now I know who my comrades are : voices from the Internet underground /
Emily Parker.
- First edition.
- ix 306 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-304),
China (isolation) : "Now I know who my comrades are" ; "Chinese people don't read personal stories" ; "I support the Party ... but what about other people?" ; "My world was so small" ; "I thought, I can really control the world" ; "Put any good guy in a bad system, and he will act very bad" ; "Nothing is impossible to a willing heart" ; "The people won't forget you, history won't forget you!" ; "Who are our enemies? Who are our friends?" ; "I tried to organize" ; "I speak in complicated sentences that my comrades can understand" ; "I express what they want to say but cannot write down" ; "I've been scared all my life" ; "Just like in a jailbreak, there's a hole in the wall" ; "We are like plants without roots" ; "I caused a lot of fights on the Internet" ; "They want to know they are not so lonely on this planet" ; "This is how I imagine the feelings of the guards" ; "You have to play by certain rules" ; "I'm a journalist and I know not to call for action" ; "Twitter is everything about me" ; "If I don't stand up for Zhu Ling, who will stand up for me?" ; "Nobody knows the whole picture" -- Cuba (fear) : "You never know who is who" ; "Resignation became my only comrade" ; "The world knows the name and face of dissidence" ; "You see agents or informers everywhere" ; "I comport myself like a free man" ; "I knew everything was bad, but I had to write that everything was good" ; "The fear of those who learn their lessons through the trauma of others" ; "People have to search for their own voice because they never h
Provides on-the-ground accounts of how the Internet is transforming lives in China, Cuba, and Russia. It's a new phenomenon, but one that's already brought about significant political change. In 2011 ordinary Egyptians, many armed with little more than mobile phones, helped topple a thirty-year-old dictatorship. It was an extraordinary moment in modern history--and Now I Know Who My Comrades Are takes us beyond the Middle East to the next major battles between the Internet and state control. Star dissidents
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