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A Blogger's Manifesto

A Blogger's Manifesto
By Erik Ringmar

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There was never such a thing as true freedom of speech. In the past, in order to speak freely you had to have access to a printing press, a newspaper, a radio or a TV station. And everywhere you had to get past the editors. Only members of the elite ever did – the articulate and well-behaved 'representatives' of ordinary people. But those ordinary people hardly, if ever, had a chance to speak publicly and freely.

Until now. The age of blogging has begun. The internet revolution has given us all a chance to be irreverent, blasphemous and ungrammatical in public. We can reveal secrets, blow whistles, spill beans or just make stuff up.

The old elites don't like it. In fact, they really, really hate it. Blogs are commonly shut down, and bloggers are silenced, reprimanded and fired from their jobs. Suddenly modern liberal society reveals a repressive face that few of us knew existed.

Should we behave ourselves? Should we fall silent? Absolutely not! Let's call them on their hypocrisy. Let's demand that modern liberal society lives by the principles it claims to embrace. Bloggers of the world, unite!  You have nothing to lose but your gags.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #918143 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-10-19
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 156 pages

Editorial Reviews

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'Fun to read. It makes a strong case for the democratic power of blogging and the Internet. A form of empowerment for the voiceless.'
Ronald Eyerman, Professor of Sociology, Yale University

'Anyone eager to understand how cyberspace has changed our possibilities and how it often remains trapped in grim social contexts would do well to read Erik Ringmar's Bloggers Manifesto.'
Norman Solomon, Author of 'War Made Easy'

'Erik has an engaging style of writing and I thoroughly recommend that anyone interested in anything more than the superficies of blogging read this book.'
The Blog of Dave Cole 

Review

'Fun to read. It makes a strong case for the democratic power of blogging and the Internet. A form of empowerment for the voiceless.'
Ronald Eyerman, Professor of Sociology, Yale University


'Anyone eager to understand how cyberspace has changed our possibilities and how it often remains trapped in grim social contexts would do well to read Erik Ringmar's Bloggers Manifesto.'
Norman Solomon, Author of 'War Made Easy'


'Erik has an engaging style of writing and I thoroughly recommend that anyone interested in anything more than the superficies of blogging read this book.'
The Blog of Dave Cole 

From the Publisher
A short, sharp introduction to the increasingly prominent world of blogging and the social implications of becoming a blogger.
Ringmar's lively and humorous style brings this pertinant topic to life.
An ideal book for those interested in political and cultural criticism, students of media and communication and anyone engaged with the modern world.

Customer Reviews

Honest and insightful5
Erik Ringmar is someone with first-hand experience of the issue of free-speech vs censorship in the on-line world. While anyone who is interested in these issues can theorise about the impact of censorship it is interesting to hear from someone who speaks honestly and openly about its practical effects (he was diciplined by the London School of Economics when he was a lecturer there in part because of things he said about the LSE in his personal blog).

Ringmar admits that his way of going about things is not always the best way or even the right way, he is quirky and that is his charm, however the lessons that he has learned and powerfully states are real and forcefully told. This really is a manifesto for free speech anywhere told by someone who knows what it really means.