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When It Comes to Politics, the Internet is Closing Minds

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Partner:: Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates
Location:: NYU Skirball Center
New York, NY
Event Date:: 04.17.12
Speakers:: John Donvan,; Evgeny Morozov,; Eli Pariser,; Siva Vaidhyanathan,; Jacob Weisberg
Tags:: blogs; blogging; digital media; social media; mass media

Summary: Does the internet poison politics? When it comes to politics, is the Internet closing minds? It’s been argued that the rise of “personalization,” the use of algorithms to filter what you see online, and easy access to the like-minded, have served to reinforce our pre-conceptions. Is the information bubble a myth, or is it undermining civic discourse? Is the rise of social media really broadening our world views, or narrowing them?"

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John Donvan

John Donvan is a correspondent for ABC News Nightline. He has served as ABC White House Correspondent, along with postings in Moscow, London, Jerusalem and Amman.

Evgeny Morozov

Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. He is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and runs the magazine's "Net Effect" blog about the Internet's impact on global politics.

Evgeny Morozov is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. He was formerly a Yahoo! fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and a fellow at George Soros's Open Society Institute, where he remains on the board of the Information Program.

Previously, he was Director of New Media at the Prague-based NGO Transitions Online (TOL) and a columnist for the Russian newspaper Akzia. He is also on the sub-board of the Information Program of the Open Society Institute.

Morozov's writings have appeared in many publications, including The Economist, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The International Herald Tribune.

Eli Pariser

Eli Pariser is the Chairman of the Board of MoveOn.org. Before that, he served as MoveOn's Executive Director. Pariser has appeared as a commentator on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, the Colbert Report, and almost all of the major cable news channels. His op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post and the LA Times, among others.

Pariser also co-founded Avaaz.org, a global organization with 3 million members, is a founding board member of AccessNow.org, and helped launch the New Organizing Institute, which has trained thousands of organizers to bring people together online and off for political change.

Siva Vaidhyanathan

A cultural historian and media scholar, Siva Vaidhyanathan is currently the Robertson Professor and the Chair of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He also teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law. The author of The Googlization of Everything and Why We Should Worry, Vaidhyanathan is a frequent contributor to the American Scholar, The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Slate and The Nation. Named "one of academe's best-known scholars of intellectual property and its role in contemporary culture" by the Chronicle of Higher Education, Vaidhyanathan has testified as an expert before the U.S. Copyright Office on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Jacob Weisberg

Jacob Weisberg is the Editor-in-Chief of The Slate Group, a division of The Washington Post Company. A native of Chicago, he attended Yale University and New College, Oxford. From 1989 until 1994, he worked as a writer and editor at The New Republic. Between 1994 and 1996, he wrote the National Interest column for New York Magazine. In the fall of 1996, he joined Slate as Chief Political Correspondent. He succeeded Michael Kinsley as editor of Slate in 2002. He has also been a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and a reporter for Newsweek in London and Washington, and a weekly columnist for the Financial Times. In 2007, Min Magazine named him Web Editor of the Year.

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01.: Robert Rosenkranz's Introduction

04 min 29 sec

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02.: Introduction of the Debate and Panelists

05 min 56 sec

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03.: For the Motion: Eli Pariser's Opening Argument

07 min 26 sec

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04.: Against the Motion: Jacob Weisberg's Opening Argument

07 min 10 sec

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05.: For the Motion: Siva Vaidhyanathan's Opening Argument

05 min 59 sec

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06.: Against the Motion: Evgeny Morozov's Opening Argument

07 min 33 sec

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07.: Rebuttal Arugments

24 min 05 sec

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08.: Audience Questions

30 min 50 sec

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09.: Against the Motion: Jacob Weisberg's Closing Statement

02 min 07 sec

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10.: For the Motion: Eli Pariser's Closing Statement

02 min 20 sec

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11.: Against the Motion: Evgeny Morozov's Closing Statement

02 min 20 sec

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12.: For the Motion: Siva Vaidhyanathan's Closing Statement

02 min 07 sec

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13.: Conclusion and Debate Results

04 min 25 sec

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Eli Pariser: The Internet Is Making Us Less Informed

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Eli Pariser, Chairman of the Board of MoveOn.org, argues that the access to multiple avenues of global information on the internet is making users less informed about the world. He declares, "they are more likely to use the internet to rediscover their own culture and dare we say it, their own national bigotry."
Evgeny Morozov: Opinions of Friends Matter Most Online

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Evgeny Morozov, contributing editor to Foreign Policy and the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, argues that our consumption of information is shaped by the opinions of the people in our social networks. Morozov asserts, "it’s a possibility that people would now be paying more attention or at least more respect to positions they would otherwise find crazy and conspiratorial, only because their friends are known to endorse those positions."
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