Rebecca MacKinnon
Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
Rebecca MacKinnon is currently an Open Society Fellow, working on a book about how authoritarian regimes survive the Internet, and what that means for the future of democracy. Beginning in February she will be a Visiting Fellow at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy.
In 2007 and 2008 she worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre, teaching online journalism and conducting research related to free expression and the Chinese Internet. During that time she was also Project Lead for Creative Commons Hong Kong.
Ms. MacKinnon is an active member of the Board of Directors for Global Voices, an award-winning citizen media community ... More »
Rebecca MacKinnon is currently an Open Society Fellow, working on a book about how authoritarian regimes survive the Internet, and what that means for the future of democracy. Beginning in February she will be a Visiting Fellow at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy.
In 2007 and 2008 she worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre, teaching online journalism and conducting research related to free expression and the Chinese Internet. During that time she was also Project Lead for Creative Commons Hong Kong.
Ms. MacKinnon is an active member of the Board of Directors for Global Voices, an award-winning citizen media community which I co-founded in 2004 with Ethan Zuckerman. She is also on the Board of Directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Global Network Initiative, a multistakeholder initiative for free expression and privacy in the ICT sector.
She is also on several other advisory boards, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Wikimedia Foundation.
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