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Rebecca MacKinnon

Contributor profile · 184 posts · joined 30 November -0001

After 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.
For the first half of 2010 I am 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.
I am working on a book about authoritarianism, democracy, free speech and netizenship. I blog about my work and ideas at RConversation.

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Latest posts by Rebecca MacKinnon

22 December 2009

We are Global Voices. Five years on.

By Rebecca MacKinnon · About GVO

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. 12

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16 July 2007

Hong Kong: GV Editor Oiwan Lam faces court battle over Flickr photo

By Rebecca MacKinnon · Hong Kong (China)

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. 8

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19 December 2006

Delhi Summit Reflections: We ARE the People of the Year.

By Rebecca MacKinnon · About GVO, GVDelhi2006

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... 5

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16 December 2006

Global Voices Delhi Summit Slideshow

By Rebecca MacKinnon · Photography

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... read »

15 December 2006

Global Voices Summit begins Saturday!!

By Rebecca MacKinnon · About GVO, Announcements

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 can... 2

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9 December 2006

Global Voices launches new search function!

By Rebecca MacKinnon · About GVO, Tools

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... 3

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