POLIS

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

Rebecca MacKinnon, journalist, co-founder of Global Voices and an open Interent Campaigner, will be speaking on February 28th about her recently published book which proposes an agenda for internet freedom. The talk will be held at 1pm in Clement House, Room 302.  

Hashtag for the event is: #PolisMackinnon and you can follow Rebecca on Twitter as @RMac. For further information, click here|

Polis LSE Literary Festival Event

Journalists Heather Brooke and Nick Cohen will be joined by Polis director, Charlie Beckett, on the 29th of February, in a talk entitled 'Censorship in an Age of Freedom'. It will take place in the Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, at 6.30pm. This talk is being held in conjunction with the LSE Literary Festival which runs from the 29th February to the 3rd of March.

For more information on the Polis event, click here.| To find out more about the full programme of events for the LSE Literary Festival, click here.|

Wikileaks: News in the Networked Era                                                                    

Director of Polis, Charlie Beckett's new book, Wikileaks: News in the Networked Era, is now available fior purchase.

To watch the video and audio podcast from his lecture on the subject, please click here.| The book can be purchased here.|

Polis Conference 2012
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On the 23rd of March, the annual Polis Conference will be held. We will have a whole day of journalism debate with top international journalists looking at how they covered the big stories of the last 12 months. Please email us if you wish to attend the conference at: polis@lse.ac.uk|

For futher information on the event, please check out the material from last year's conference here.|