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The Bureau o International Inormation Programs o theU.S. Department o State publishes a monthly electronic journal under the
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logo. These journalsexamine major issues acing the United States and theinternational community, as well as U.S. society, values,thought, and institutions.One new journal is published monthly in English and isollowed by versions in French, Portuguese, Russian, andSpanish. Selected editions also appear in Arabic, Chinese,and Persian. Each journal is catalogued by volume andnumber.The opinions expressed in the journals do not necessarily relect the views or policies o the U.S. government. TheU.S. Department o State assumes no responsibility orthe content and continued accessibility o Internet sitesto which the journals link; such responsibility residessolely with the publishers o those sites. Journal articles,photographs, and illustrations may be reproduced andtranslated outside the United States unless they carry explicit copyright restrictions, in which case permissionmust be sought rom the copyright holders noted in the journal.The Bureau o International Inormation Programsmaintains current and back issues in several electronicormats, as well as a list o upcoming journals, at
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ne-sixth o the entire world’s populationuses the Internet regularly, according tothe World Telecommunications Union,and 2.7 billion people are subscribers to mobiletelephone services. Both o those numbers haverocketed in the ew years since we entered a newmillennium.Thesetechnologies allowindividuals to tapdeep wells into the world’s knowledge,and then to share itand disseminate itor social or politicalagendas o their ownmaking. Knowledgeis power, and on thepages that ollow,our contributorsdescribe many eventsin the world wherecitizens have usedtechnologies and thepower they convey tochallenge the statusquo, to unmask abuses, and to clamor or greaterreedom.“The technology — ubiquitous even in poorcountries — not only enables a reer ow o inormation, but it also encourages citizens whopreviously elt powerless to take a role in bringingabout changes in their societies,” writes Patrick Butler o the International Center or Journalists inthe frst essay o this publication.Challenged by these movements or change,governments can no longer saely resort to the oldpatterns. Repressive governments can no longermeet peaceul protestors with bludgeons and gounnoticed. Camera phones record the scene whenthe blows all. Eusive bloggers will tell the world.This is a story that
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, which examined how traditional media were remaking their products in a new inormationenvironment and how citizens were fnding theirskills with new technologies. Now the story isunolding beyondthe media itsel intosociety at large.Mediaorganizations areamong the bestmonitors o what’shappening, and we have turnedto them to tellthese stories. TheInternational Centeror Journalistsexplains how newtechnologies bringnew voices to thepolitical arena. A veteran American journalist describeshow U.S. politics take a dierent course with theinvolvement o online activists. Writers rom the World Editors Forum and the World Association o Newspapers explain how citizens are changing newsproducts and how proessional newsrooms mustrespond.Our contributors tell complex and varied stories,but one theme repeats itsel on these pages: The endo the story is not yet written. How our world willchange as a result o the social, political, and mediaorces now let loose remains a secret or the uture toknow. 
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