Morozov, Eugene (journalist)

Born in Belarus, in the city of Soligorsk . Under a scholarship from the Soros Foundation, he studied at the American University in Bulgaria, where he received a bachelor’s degree ^[3] .

Then he went through a nine-month program at the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin ^[4] .

In 2006-2008, he was Director of New Media at Transitions Online , a non-governmental organization supporting the development of independent journalism in Eastern European countries. Morozov traveled to Central Asia, the Caucasus and Belarus, met with network activists, bloggers and opposition politicians, campaigned for the “ new media ”, showed how to use blogs , social networks and Wikipedia in all its variants to expose abuses in the country ^[5] . He taught a blogging course for Belarusian journalists, the purpose of which, according to him, was “to stimulate debate, start a discussion within the Belarusian community, which is often in hibernation” ^[6] .

In 2008-2009 he worked at the Open Society Institute .

In 2009–2010, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University . In 2010-2012, he was a visiting scientist at Stanford University ^[7] .

Morozov's articles were published in The Economist , International Herald Tribune , San Francisco Chronicle , Newsweek , The Wall Street Journal , Foreign Policy , Financial Times , The New York Times ^[8] .

Some articles were translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese for the newspapers Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Corriere della Sera , El Pais , Folha de S. Paulo . ^[8]

Writing editor of the journal Foreign Policy ^[9] .

The author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom ("Network Deception : The Dark Side of Internet Freedom "). The book was published in January 2011, and generated a huge number of positive reviews and reviews mainly in the left-liberal camp of American critics ^[10] .

The book received Goldsmith Book Prize awards (2012) ^[11] , the Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award (2012) ^[12], and has been included in the New York Times list of 100 noteworthy books of 2011 ^[13] .

The Net delusion has been translated and published in Italian ^[14] and Spanish ^[15] .

In addition, Morozov’s small book, Against Steve Jobs , was published in Italian ^[16] .

• In articles and the book The Net Delusion, Morozov criticized techno-utopianism and the so-called “ iPod liberalism” - the assumption that technological innovations (such as the spread of the Internet and mobile communications, blogs and microblogging, social networks) always promote freedom and democracy in authoritarian countries. Morozov gives a number of sobering examples of how despotic regimes used the Internet to stifle dissidents ^[17] . ^[18] However, Morozov does not at all deny that the Internet is an effective means of mobilizing and organizing advocates of democracy and human rights. His goal is to warn against excessive euphoria ^[19] .
• According to Morozov, the government’s influence on the Russian Internet relies, mainly, not on technical measures, but on the ideological opposition of the opposition. Morozov calls this method " social control ." In an article published in the New York Times , Morozov writes:

Armies of pro-government users, which often include people who work similar things, and [...] members of pro-Kremlin youth movements [...] attack sites they don’t like, making them inaccessible to users even in countries where there is no Internet censorship .

- “How the Kremlin controls the Internet”

• Evgeny Morozov, How the Kremlin controls the Internet // The New York Times (Inosmi translation)
• Evgeny Morozov: Is the Internet what Orwell was afraid of?
• Morozov’s articles in the Aktsiya newspaper (2006-2008).
• “Civil Media: Past, Present, Future” (report by Evgeny Morozov)
• Free Internet: Pros and Cons
• Articles in Slate Magazine

• Personal site (eng.)
• Evgeny Morozov on Twitter
• TED profile
• presentations on slideshare.net