Rebecca MacKinnon - Rebecca MacKinnon is a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo, before leaving television to become a blogger and co-founder of Global Voices Online.
She is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Center and lives in Hong Kong. From 2004-06 she was a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Evgeny Morozov - Evgeny Morozov is currently a fellow at the Open Society Institute in New York. Previously, he was Director of New Media at the Prague-based NGO Transitions Online (TOL) and a columnist for the Russian newspaper Akzia (2003-2008). He is also on the sub-board of the Information Program of the Open Society Institute.
The Open Society Institute and Asia Society host an event with Open Society Fellows Rebecca MacKinnon and Evgeny Morozov exploring the changing landscape of Internet censorship. Special attention is given to the techniques employed by governments to co-opt and steer online discussions in ideologically convenient directions.
Focusing on the specific cases of Russia and China, the panelists discuss how the strategies and tools of control, manipulation, and censorship have evolved in both countries.
Isabel Hilton, editor of China Dialogue and an Open Society Fellowship selection committee member, moderates the discussion.