MDF Talk with Rebecca MacKinnon

October 20th, 2011

Yesterday, MDF hosted our latest MDF Talk with the fantastic Rebecca MacKinnon. If you missed it, here are some great resources to learn more about her important work:


  • Her new book, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, will be out in early 2012. Learn more about it here.

  • She is currently a Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, where she conducts research, writing and advocacy on global Internet policy, free expression, and the impact of digital technologies on human rights.

  • She is a co-founder of Global Voices. Global Voices is a community of more than 500 bloggers and translators around the world who work together to bring you reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media.

  • Here’s her Ted Talk from earlier this year: