The media provides the resources we all need for the conduct of everyday life.
Roger Silverstone

Digital Democracy and its Discontents

Evgeny Morozov 12 - 1.30pm Location: Room D202, Clement House, LSE Date: 12 Jan, 2010

Evgeny Morozov is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and runs the magazine's influential and widely-quoted "Net Effect" blog about the Internet's impact on global politics. Click here for the blog.

Morozov is currently a Yahoo! fellow at Georgetown University's E.A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He was a fellow at George Soros's Open Society Institute.

Before moving to the US, Morozov was based in Berlin and Prague, where he was Director of New Media at Transitions Online, a media development NGO active in 29 countries of the former Soviet bloc.

Please find his website, and a link to his blog, here.

The seminar is open to the public but will be of primary interest to students and academics.

Keywords: Evgeny Morozov, political, implications, internet, foreign policy, georgetown univeristy, new media