Open Society and Soros Foundation
Evgeny Morozov

Evgeny Morozov is an online media and digital activism expert from Belarus. He is writing a book on how the Internet influences civic engagement and regime stability in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian societies such as China, Egypt, Russia, and Venezuela. He is focusing on the unanticipated consequences of increased Internet usage, including nationalist activism and the dampening effects of new online social freedoms on political engagement.

Morozov has written on new media and technology for numerous publications, including the Economist, International Herald Tribune, Open Democracy, Le Monde, Newsweek, Slate, and Foreign Policy. He also blogs on the Foreign Policy website at Net.Effect.

He is currently a member of the OSI Information Program sub-board. He will be based at the Open Society Institute's New York office during the term of the fellowship.

New York, NY  |  Sept 2008 - Aug 2009  |  www.evgenymorozov.com

More from Evgeny Morozov

Democracy and the Internet—Re-examining the Core Assumptions
OSI-New York
April 30, 2009
Open Society Fellow Evgeny Morozov focused on threats to open society posed by the Internet and discussed ways in which authoritarian governments and extremists are using the web to their own advantage..

Firewalls to Freedom
Rebecca MacKinnon & Evgeny Morozov
February 25, 2009
As authoritarian regimes learn how to manage and engineer information flows, we must understand that promoting and protecting free speech in places like China and Russia is not a simple matter of “tearing down the wall,” write Open Society Fellows Rebecca MacKinnon & Evgeny Morozov.

The Future of Freedom and Control in the Internet Age
OSI-New York
February 10, 2009
Open Society Fellows Rebecca MacKinnon and Evgeny Morozov explored the changing landscape of Internet censorship and the role that governments, corporations, and individuals play in enabling it.

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