Critique: Morozov on Cyber-utopianism and Internet-centrism

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Critique: Morozov on Cyber-utopianism and Internet-centrism

In The New Republic, Evgeny Morozov critically reviews Steven Johnson’s book Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age. Morozov says that are two ways to be wrong about the Internet: one is to embrace cyber-utopianism, the other to succumb to Internet-centrism. Morozov claims that with Johnson’s Future Perfect, Internet-centrists “finally have a briskly written manifesto that distills all the major tenets of their worldview”.

Read Morozov's critique here: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112189/social-media-doesnt-always-help-social-movements

And Johnson's answer back here!
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112336/future-perfects-steven-johnson-evgeny-morozov-debate-social-media