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ONE BOOK, ONE WORLD: Creating & Implementing the FAIFE Book Club. By Jonathan Kelley IFLA World Library and Information Congress Helsinki, Finland August 12, 2012. WHY the FAIFE Book Club?. Generate discussion of freedom of access and freedom of expression - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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ONE BOOK, ONE WORLD:
Creating & Implementing the FAIFE Book Club
By Jonathan KelleyIFLA World Library and Information Congress
Helsinki, FinlandAugust 12, 2012
WHY the FAIFE Book Club?
Generate discussion of freedom of access and freedom of expression
Increase visibility of FAIFE through creative endeavors
Expose people to good books!
WHO is the intended audience?Intellectu
al Freedom Advocate
s
• Advocacy tools
• Communication
General
Public
• Education• Provocation• Awareness
Libraries, Librarian
s & Library Assns
• Programming• Connections
Stage IPick a book &
start discussing
Stage I:
by Evgeny Morozov
First book: The Net Delusion – How not to liberate the world
Kai Ekholm on The Net Delusion:Evgeny Morozov’s The Net Delusion has been my favourite book for a while.
It is a book that seems to open a whole new paradigm and hit in the heart of our time. He does not have any trouble hitting Google, Iran, China or USA for that matter in the belly and reveal their secret plans to master the people’s mind.
He debates ‘cyber-utopians’ for their naivety and closing their eyes for what is really happening in Internet. We all shared the naïve idea that Twitter was the tyrants worst nightmare. It was not. They use Internet even more effectively as a two-way mirror to track their citizens in action. There are bizarre examples how innocent Web 2.0 –users are hunted down.
After reading The Net Delusion we should understand better how censorship in the cyberage works. Look at China that has turned the whole country to a gigantic intranet, that has its parallels to Google, Twitter, cybercafes and happy cybermillionaires. 400 million people mastered this way with the help of tens of thousands of cyberpolice is a construction George Orwell could not even dream of. And what is most shameful: the major western ICT companies have happily helped China to build this.
We shouldn’t have too many illusions after reading his invaluable book. Morozov illustrates many cases that are globalization as its worst.
What was your illusion lost after reading this book?
Chapter-by-chapter analysisOn LibraryThing
(initially)Transferred to WordPress siteTranslated into
Finnish!Permanent
FAIFE Book Club on LibraryThing.org
No comments
Members have ability to post comments
Features of LibraryThing
Email & TwitterTwitter Feed
@faife_book_club 42 followers
FAIFE Book Club email [email protected] 24 subscribers
Stage IIPick another book &
improve capacity
Book should be widely available in multiple languages & formats
More interactive website, more multimedia, protect privacyBased on other online
book discussions - don’t reinvent the wheel!
Archive of past discussions
Guardian Book Group
Second book: Fahrenheit 451
Why Fahrenheit 451?Available in 60+
languagesAbout censorship(?)
Subject to censorshipAvailable in multiple
formats
New websiteWordpress site: faifebookclub.ala.org
•Blog - with comments (including anonymous)
• Multimedia – can post videos, podcasts
• Archive – all past analysis & discussions still available
• More attractive design
• Twitter feed integration
• Live chat functionality
• Event calendar
Stage IIIIncrease buy-in,
create & promote activities
Co-sponsoring organizationsHelp publicize the FAIFE Book ClubEncourage their members to participate in discussionsPlan and host in person or online events or activitiesHelp create information and events in additional
languagesProvide input on future FAIFE Book Club selections
Co-sponsors as of 9 August 20121. ALA Intellectual Freedom Round Table2. Your library or organization!?
Future activitiesWebinars/webcastsLibrary-to-library Skype conversations?Banned Books WeekFacebook page?
Suggestions welcome!
Contact me!Jonathan [email protected]+1 312 280-4226