Books by Johan Lagerqvist
After the Internet, Before Democracy
by Johan Lagerqvist
Lagerqvist tries to find a middle ground between technological determinism — this notion that the Internet will automatically bring about democracy in authoritarian states — and the much darker view that authoritarian states can control the Internet and hold onto power regardless of how citizens use the Internet.
Interviews where books by Johan Lagerqvist were recommended
The best books on China and the Internet, recommended by Gady Epstein
The ‘Great Fire Wall of China’. How has the Chinese Communist Party managed to survive the internet? Economist correspondent Gady Epstein chooses books on the world’s most successful case of authoritarian control of the internet.
