Rebecca MacKinnon
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Co-FounderAfter escaping from my former job in TV news, I'm now thrilled to be conversing with the world instead of talking at it as co-founder of Global Voices.
I currently live in Washington, DC where I am a Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. My first book, Consent of the Networked, will be published in January 2012 by Basic Books. I blog about my work and ideas at RConversation.
For the first half of 2010 I was a visiting fellow at Princeton's Center For Information Technology Policy. In 2009 I was an Open Society Institute Fellow. In 2007 and 2008 I taught online journalism at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre. From 2004-06 I spent three years at Harvard, mainly as a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, which is where I co-founded Global Voices with my colleague Ethan Zuckerman.
From 1992-2003 I worked for CNN in Asia. Based in China and Japan, I covered stories from Taiwan to Korea (North and South) to Pakistan. I'm fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Latest posts by Rebecca MacKinnon
4 October 2011
Arab Bloggers Meet in Tunis
On Monday in Tunis, the 3rd Arab Bloggers Meeting kicked off with a day-long public conference. The meeting is co-hosted by Global Voices, Nawaat and Heinrich Böll Foundation and is attended by around 100 bloggers from nearly all Arab countries.
20 December 2010
Support Global Voices: Help make the world a more connected place
Even with much support from passionate volunteers, we need financial support to keep this project going and growing. Global Voices has become an incubator for important and innovative projects around the globe. If you believe the work we're doing at Global Voices is important for making the world a wider and more connected place, we hope you'll support us with a donation.
22 December 2009
We are Global Voices. Five years on.
As Global Voices celebrates this fifth year of existence, co-founder Rebecca MacKinnon reflects on how far the we've come—and how far we still have to go.
16 July 2007
Hong Kong: GV Editor Oiwan Lam faces court battle over Flickr photo
On May 11th, Oiwan Lam, Global Voices Northeast Asia Editor, committed what she says was a deliberate act of civil disobedience. Writing on the citizen media website InMedia Hong Kong, Oiwan called on her readers to post links to erotic websites and also included an artsy photo of a topless woman that she found on Flickr, the photo sharing site owned by Yahoo!. The post was originally published here, but has now been removed from the InMedia site and posted on a Wordpress.com blog. As Boingboing and others reported earlier this week, Oiwan's post has been classified as "Class II indecent" by Hong Kong's Obscene Articles Tribunal.
19 December 2006
Delhi Summit Reflections: We ARE the People of the Year.
As global voices editors, authors, community members, and allies convened our second annual summit in Delhi this weekend, TIME magazine dedicated its “person of the year” to YOU: people around...
16 December 2006
Global Voices Delhi Summit Slideshow
Day 1 of the Global Voices Delhi Summit is well underway and the photos are starting to emerge on Flickr. Here is a slideshow. People are contributing their photos of...
15 December 2006
Global Voices Summit begins Saturday!!
If you aren't able to join us in Delhi for Saturday's Global Voices 2006 Summit, please join us online! Information about the schedule, webcast, live online chat, and other information...
9 December 2006
Global Voices launches new search function!
Global Voices co-founder Ethan Zuckerman and tech guru Boris Anthony have put together a new “Global Voices Web” search using the new Google Co-op platform which enables you to create...
10 November 2006
Corporate Social Responsibility: The blogosphere reacts
If you missed the live webcast of Reuters’ Corporate Social Responsible panel yesterday, you can click here to view the full-length archived video. Stephen Frost live-blogged it on the CSR...
7 November 2006
Are companies being socially responsible in your country? Let us know!!
On Thursday November 9th, at 6:30pm EST (23:30 GMT / 07:30am Friday Beijing time), Reuters will be hosting a live conversation about corporate social responsibility at its New York headquarters....
China must step in to protect indigenous Mongoloid Asiatic native people & their lands, and...