http://www.radio4all.net/program/59566Podcast for Program: Internet Revolution RevisitedThu, 26 Apr 2012 20:09:17 +0000240http://www.radio4all.net/program/59566 An examination of the benefits and risks of internet activism - which can be used both to topple tyrants, and disable dissidents, featuring: Web workers from "ANONYMOUS" recalling the triumphs and tragedies of web activism in Egypt during the "Arab Spring" of 2011, as featured in the new film "We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists," recalling the triumphs and tragedies of web activism in Egypt during the "Arab Spring" of 2011; EVGENY MOROZOV, the author of "The Net Delusion," on the dual valence of internet technology, and disaggregating "the web" to make problems of privacy and utility more tractable, speaking with visionon.tv during the "Power Media Revolution" conference; DANAH BOYD, an internet researcher at Harvard and Microsoft, discusses Egypt's digital "revolution" and hacktivists'subsequent disillusionment with the non-web-based electoral victory of the conservative Muslim Brotherhood, and the way the internet can be used to exploit and amilify fear. Her speech, "Culture of Fear + Attention Economy = ?!?!" was presented at the recent "Webstock 12" conference; and "Occupy West Side Story / Officer Winski" as "Officer Krupke" -- Keroscene Records' Sondheim parody based on the New York Police Department's new whiteshirt avatar, Inspector Edward Winski, who succeeds former "occupy" commander "Tony Baloney" Bologna, who famously maced enkettled women during early OWS protests. Robert KnightThu, 26 Apr 2012 20:09:17 +0000