Evgeny Morozov

Evgeny Morozov (White Russian Яўген Марозаў, Jauhen Marozaw; Russian Евгений Морозов, Yevgeny Morozov, born 1984 in Salihorsk ) is a Belarusian, forming published in English publicist. It deals with political and social impact of technology. He criticizes the naivety of the assumption that the Internet is democratic per se and bring political change in authoritarian states. Rather, the supply of surveillance technology should be considered to repressive regimes such as the arms trade.

Life

With a grant from the Open Society Institute of George Soros Morozov moved to Bulgaria and worked in Berlin.

Morozov is a fellow at the New America Foundation and is currently conducting research as a visiting scholar at Stanford University. Previously, he was Yahoo Fellow at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. In July 2009, he spoke at the TED Conference.

For the Foreign Policy magazine, he writes the column Net.Effect: How Technology Shapes the World and for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the silicone column democracy.

Awards

  • Goldsmith Book Prize of the Joan Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School in 2012
  • Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award from the American Library Association 2012

Writings

  • The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. Perseus Book Group, Philadelphia 2011, ISBN 978-1-58648-874-1
  • To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. Public Affairs, 2013, ISBN 978-1-61039-138-2 - German: smart new world: Digital technology and the freedom of man, Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3896674760
  • Truth and advice. In: The Time. No. 41, October 2, 2013
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