Three Reviews: Emily Parker's "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground"
By Jason Q. Ng, Benjamin Nathans, Anita Casavantes BradfordApril 18, 2014
Now I Know Who My Comrades Are by Emily D. Parker
IN A NEW experiment in comparative reviewing, editors Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Megan Shank arranged for three reviews of Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground by Emily Parker. Parker is a digital diplomacy advisor and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, New Republic, Far Eastern Economic Review, Project Syndicate, and World Affairs. Her book examines the use of the internet in Cuba, China, and Russia, and we contacted experts in the culture and politics of each of those three countries for reviews, asking them to focus on Parker's account of the country they each know best.
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"Online and Offline in Cuba," by Anita Casavantes Bradford
"Oh What Voices," by Jason Q. Ng
"Like It or Not, They Too Are Fellow Netizens," by Benjamin Nathans
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LARB Contributors
Jason Q. Ng is a research fellow at the University of Toronto’s The Citizen Lab and author of Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China’s Version of Twitter (And Why). His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal’s “China Real Time” blog, The Atlantic, ChinaFile, and Foreign Affairs.
Benjamin Nathans is the Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His next book is To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: Soviet Dissidents and Human Rights.
Anita Casavantes Bradford is assistant professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her first book, The Revolution is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962, is now available from the University of North Carolina Press.
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Online and Offline in Cuba
This is one of three essays on Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground.
Oh What Voices
This is one of three essays on Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground.
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