The "From Gutenberg to the Web" winter term study abroad class participated Jan. 11 in a session at a Berlin university on Internet censorship and ways it can be circumvented for democratic purposes.
Students from ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ and DEKRA Hochschule Berlin had a dual screening of a ZDF television documentary on how activists got around censorship during the Arab Spring and how revolutionary hackers build homemade networks independent of the Internet.
The screening was followed by a panel discussion streamed live on the web and moderated by John Kantara, producer of the ZDF documentary and professor at DEKRA Hochschule.
Panelists included Ben Scott, a former adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on technology issues who now works for a Berlin technology and policy think tank. Scott was joined on the panel by Associate Professor Anthony Hatcher and ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ junior Jeff Stern. The panel fielded questions from an audience including students from both universities.