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In China, online critics write in code to spread the truths their government wants to hide. In Cuba, bloggers band together to get a fellow activist out of jail. And in Russia, a lone blogger launches online campaigns against the country’s most powerful companies, and rises to become the most prominent opposition figure since the fall of the Soviet Union.

In Now I Know Who My Comrades Are, former State Department policy advisor and Wall Street Journal writer Emily Parker provides on-the-ground accounts of how social media is transforming lives and challenging governments in China, Russia, and Cuba. This book introduces us to an army of bloggers and tweeters — generals and foot soldiers alike. They refuse to be intimidated by surveillance cameras or citizen informers. Even as they navigate the risks of authoritarian life, they feel free.

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ and Future Tense hosted a conversation about how prominent dissidents and average citizens around the world use the Internet to challenge authority.

Participants

​Emily Parker
Author, Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground
Senior Fellow and Digital Diplomacy Advisor, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Foundation

Anne-Marie Slaughter
President and CEO, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Foundation