The Blogosphere The New Public Sphere? What Role for the State If Any?

A presentation by Dibussi Tande Panel Discussion / Debate Tuesday, September 28 Is The Blogosphere The New Public Sphere? What Should The Role Of The State Be, If Any? Successful Media Business Models in the Digital Age Dar es Salaam, Tanzania September 26-29, 2010

Overview of the Public Sphere ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Picture source : fdecomite

The Blogosphere as the New Public Sphere ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Picture Source: Data mining The Blogosphere “ A vital tool of political involvement and participatory, democratic activism“

What Role for the State in the New Public Sphere / Blogosphere? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Picture Source: RFI

An Overview of the African Blogosphere ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

How African Regimes View the African Digital Public Sphere (I) ,[object Object],[object Object],$100,000 The African Blogger DEAD or ALIVE

How African Regimes View the African Digital Public Sphere (II) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The 4Cs for Neutralizing the Blogosphere ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Snapshot of Repression: Cameroon Cybercrime Law ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Law Establishing a Legal Framework for the Fight Against Cybercrimes and the Promotion of Cyber Security Picture Source: RFI

The Way Forward – A Minimal Role for the State in the Blogosphere ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What Minimal Role for the State? Creating an Enabling Environment ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],“ Freedom of Internet content is a myth… but the democratization of Internet control is possible”

What Role for the State? Promoting Participatory Democracy Online ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The balance between protecting free expression online and ensuring that the rights and dignity of others are protected is an extremely delicate one and must be applied carefully. Article 19

Revisiting the Role of Kenyan Blogosphere in the 2008 Post-Election Violence ,[object Object],[object Object]

Beyond the Fog – Mashada: An Example of the Blogosphere’s “Self Healing” Capacity ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The Mashada experience “elegantly demonstrated that one possible response to destructive speech online is to encourage constructive speech” [rather than resort to repression]

Out of Chaos… Ushahidi ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Free from state interventionism the blogosphere becomes a zone for online collaboration and creative solutions

Fast Forward 2010 Kenya Referendum: Digital Public Sphere Self Regulates ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Tools & techniques from the blogoshere used to tame "predatory impulse[s] that deepen existing cultural divides “and to promote the “civic impulse for constructive and healing dialogue”

Navigating a Potential Minefield: Mainstream Journalists Using Social Media ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Caught in the Social Media Minefield: CNNs’ Octavia Nasr “ A t this point, we believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward.“ Parisa Khosravi, senior vice president of CNN International

End Note: “The Greatest Menace To Freedom Is An Inert People” “ Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary... They believed that ... the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of ... Government” US Supreme Court Justice, Louis D. Brandeis

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