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7 See, for example, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium Is the Message (New York: Random House, 1967).
8 Jacques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1990), p. 76,
quoted in Ronfeldt, “Cyberocracy Is Coming,” 1992.
9 Ronfeldt, “Cyberocracy Is Coming,” 1992.
10 See, for example, Stephen Bates, The Potential Downside of the National Information Infrastructure (Washington, D.C.:
The Annenberg Washington Program, 1995).
11 Ronfeldt explores this concern in depth in “Cyberocracy Is Coming,” 1992.
12 Various interviews and electronic correspondence with Coban Tun.
13 Interview with Douglas Steele, Washington, D.C., February 2, 1997; A. Lin Neumann, “The Resistance Network,” Wired,
January 1996, Vol. 4.01, p. 108.
14 Ibid.
15 Neumann, “The Resistance Network,” 1996; Martha FitzSimmon, ed., Communicators of Conscience: Humanitarian and
Human Rights Organizations’ Use of the Internet (New York: The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, 1994), p. 25.
16 Steele interview, 1997.
17 The BurmaNet News, No. 603, January 3, 1997. The full text of BurmaNet’s daily news reports are archived at
ftp://Sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/political-science/freeburma/bnn/.
18 Steele interview, 1997. Interview with Michael Beer, Washington, D.C., December 19, 1996. See also, The Associated
Press, “Asian Rebels Use Internet,” The (Annapolis) Sunday Capital, April 23, 1995, p. A12.
19 BurmaNet Editor, The Free Burma Movement and the Internet, unpublished manuscript. The writer, while known to the
authors, requested anonymity.
20 Ibid. Beer interview, 1996. See also Barbara Crossette, “Burmese Opposition Gets Oslo Radio Service,” The New York
Times, July 19, 1992, p. 11.
21 Information provided by Mike Mitchell, International Republican Institute.
22 December 15, 1996, email message posted on BurmaNet.
23 June 28, 1997, email message posted on BurmaNet.
24 Interview with Beer, 1996; authors’ monitoring of BurmaNet and related electronic mail lists.
25 Posting in The BurmaNet News, No. 762, July 1, 1997.
26 This was contained in an email welcome message after one of the authors electronically subscribed to MyanmarNet.
27 Steele interview, 1997.
28 Various email messages.
29 Gov. William Weld, remarks at Burma bill signing, June 25, 1996. Provided by the governor’s office.
30 See, for example, Theo Emery, “Motorola, HP to Cut Ties to Burma: Cite Massachusetts Law Barring Business in
Nation,” The Boston Globe, November 29, 1996, p. B11.
31 See, for example, “A State’s Foreign Policy: The Mass That Roared,” The Economist, February 8, 1997, pp. 32–33.
32 Interview with Rep. Byron Rushing, Boston, January 23, 1997.
33 Interview with Jose Juves, Boston, January 23, 1997.
34 Juves and Rushing interviews, 1997.
35 Interview with Simon Billenness, January 23, 1997.