Censorship and Information Control

How do innovations in information technology stimulate new forms of censorship and information control? This project brings together scholars of earlier information revolutions, from the printing press through radio and the copy machine, with journalists, editors, authors, activists and other experts on the contemporary information revolution. In a series of nine filmed discussions, these twenty-five specialists discuss the parallels between past and present information revolutions, that illuminate the new forms of censorship and information control which are developing around us, and what we can do about them. 

This series was organized by Ada Palmer, Cory Doctorow, and Adrian Johns, and produced by the University of Chicago, with support from the Department of History, the Neubauer Collegium on Culture and Society, the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.