Presentation Evgeny Morozov gave at the Open Society Institute in Budapest in mid-July 2007

1. Budapest, July16/ 2007 Evgeny Morozov, Director of New Media/Transitions Online New ways to engage youth online: the case of CIS

3. More good news than bad news Good news : the youth is already engaged Bad news : nobody has much control over direction of that engagement Good news : that includes state actors

6. Russian-language blogosphere

7. Age distribution of bloggers

9. Country distribution

10. The Long Tail of the Russian-language blogosphere

11. Most discussed news

12. Occupation of Russian-lang bloggers

29. Case-study: the Novgorod affair

56. Legal/Social Issues raised ==should young people be left alone without supervision even for a short time? ==should those suspected of crimes which don't threaten society be locked up before trial? ==is it enough to have one underage witness to start a criminal case? ==is it acceptable to influence the state and especially the prosecutor's office through the Internet? ==is the existing system for the protection of system adequate? ==is the current nature between the prosecutors office, the court, and the defense adequate? ==is the overall criminal situation in Novgorod too bad?

63. Email: morozove@tol.org

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