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International Issues

This week, Mike Fischer will talk about life on a different part of the electronic frontier.

Before Class

Read these papers:

• Orkideh Behrouzan, Persian Blogs against "The Dual Language"
• Alireza Doostdar, The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging
• Hossein Derakhshan, Censor This: Iran's Web of Lies
• Also read some of Derakhshan's blog
• Steven Cherry, China: The Net Effect
• Rosemary J. Coombe and Andrew Herman, Rhetorical Virtues: Property, Speech, and the Commons on the World-Wide Web
• "Moral rights" (Caslon Analytics: Intellectual Property Guide)
• Anita Chan, Coding Free Software, Coding Free States

Also skim these papers:

• Chris Kelty, Culture's Open Sources: Punt to Culture
• Internet Filtering in Iran 2004-2005 (PDF - 1.0 MB)
• Reporters Without Borders, The Internet Under Surveillance: China