Jillian York

Jillian York

York speaking at the 2011 Personal Democracy Forum (photo by Personal Democracy)
Born (1982-05-18) May 18, 1982[1]
Dover, New Hampshire, U.S.
Nationality American
Occupation Free-expression activist, journalist and travel writer
Website jilliancyork.com

Jillian C. York (born May 18, 1982)[1] is an American free-expression activist, journalist and travel writer.

She is the Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).[2]

Career

In 2006, York authored Morocco – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture, a travel book on Morocco.[3]

In 2008, she joined the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace, where she worked on the OpenNet Initiative, a joint project whose goal is to monitor and report on internet filtering and surveillance practices by nations, and Herdict, and conducted research on distributed denial-of-service attacks.[4] In 2011, she moved to the EFF, where she is the director of international freedom of expression.

York has been called "one of the leading scholars on Internet control and censorship"[5] and a specialist on free expression and social media in the Arab world.[6] Her research[7] on the role of social media in the Arab Spring has been widely cited.[8] In June 2011, Foreign Policy named her one of the top-100 intellectuals discussing foreign policy on Twitter.[9]

York's writing on free expression has also been published in The Guardian,[10] Bloomberg[11] and Foreign Policy.[12]

She is a regular columnist for Al Jazeera English[13] and writes for Global Voices Online,[14] where she is also on its board of directors as of 2011.[15] She also co-founded Talk Morocco, which won the 2010 Deutsche Welle Best of Blogs Award for Best English-language blog.[16]

In May 2014, she gave a talk with Jacob Appelbaum suggesting the safer sex and harm reduction movements could show advocates of liberty and privacy how their work can better reach mainstream audiences.[17]

Awards

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 "Goodreads Author Profile". Goodreads..
  2. ↑ "Jillian York". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved March 10, 2008.
  3. ↑ York, Jillian. "Readable first-person bio". Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  4. ↑ "Politically Charged Websites Face Frequent Attacks". New Scientist. December 21, 2010. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Blogger Seeks Out the World From Cambridge". The Boston Globe. April 28, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Social Media Plays Role in Toppling Tunisian President". ABC News. January 14, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere". OpenNet Initiative.
  8. ↑ "Twitter and Facebook as Political Tools in the Arab World". NPR.
  9. ↑ "The FP Twitterati 100". Foreign Policy.
  10. ↑ Staff (n.d.). "Jillian C. York". The Guardian.
  11. ↑ "When Social Networks Become Tools of Oppression". Bloomberg Views. July 6, 2011.
  12. ↑ "Freedom #Fail". Foreign Policy. April 29, 2011.
  13. ↑ "Jillian C. York profile". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  14. ↑ "Jillian C. York". Global Voices Online.
  15. ↑ Staff (June 9, 2011). "Board of Directors". Global Voices Online. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
  16. ↑ Press release (April 19, 2010). "The BOBs: Best Weblog Goes to 'Ushahidi' from Kenya". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
  17. ↑ Appelbaum, Jacob; York, Jillian. "Let's talk about sex baby, Let's talk about PGP".
  18. ↑ Deutsche Welle. "The BOBs: Best Weblog goes to 'Ushahidi' from Kenya". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  19. ↑ Knight Foundation. "Knight News Challenge awards $3.4 million for ideas to strengthen the Internet". Knight Foundation. Retrieved 22 August 2014.

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