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International Issues
This week, Mike Fischer will talk about life on a different part of the electronic frontier.
Before Class
Read these papers:
- Orkideh Behrouzan, Persian Blogs against "The Dual Language"
- Alireza Doostdar, The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging
- Hossein Derakhshan, Censor This: Iran's Web of Lies
- Also read some of Derakhshan's blog
- Steven Cherry, China: The Net Effect
- Rosemary J. Coombe and Andrew Herman, Rhetorical Virtues: Property, Speech, and the Commons on the World-Wide Web
- "Moral rights" (Caslon Analytics: Intellectual Property Guide)
- Anita Chan, Coding Free Software, Coding Free States
Also skim these papers:
- Chris Kelty, Culture's Open Sources: Punt to Culture
- Internet Filtering in Iran 2004-2005 (PDF ‑ 1.0 MB)
- Reporters Without Borders, The Internet Under Surveillance: China