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Rebecca MacKinnon (born September 16, 1969) is an author, researcher, Internet freedom advocate, and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo.
- journalist, author, researcher
- Goldsmith Book Prize
- Harvard University (1991)
- September 16, 1969 (age 54), Berkeley, California, U.S.
Jennifer Pahlka. In this powerful talk from TEDGlobal, Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control?
Rebecca MacKinnon is Vice President, Global Advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia. Author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom (2012), she is co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices, and founding director of Ranking Digital Rights, a research and advocacy program at New America. From 1998-2004 she was CNN’s ...
In Consent of the Networked, Rebecca MacKinnon becomes the modern day John Locke calling on those who control the code and architecture of the networks to understand, take responsibility and acknowledge the requirement for the Consent of the Networked.
Rebecca MacKinnon is a founding director of Ranking Digital Rights, a program that works to promote internet freedom and privacy by ranking companies on their human rights obligations. She is also a co-founder of Global Voices, a citizen media network, and an author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. She is a visiting affiliate at UC San Diego and a UC San Diego Pacific Leadership Fellow.
Aug 18, 2011 · Rebecca MacKinnon moves the debate about the Internet’s political impact to a new level. It is time, she says, to stop arguing over whether the Internet empowers individuals and societies, and address the more fundamental and urgent question of how technology should be structured and governed to support the rights and liberties of all the ...
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