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WikiLeaks and the Changing Forms of Information Politics in the “Network Society”

WikiLeaks and the Changing Forms of Information Politics in the “Network Society”
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Author(s): Chindu Sreedharan (Bournemouth University, UK), Einar Thorsen (Bournemouth University, UK)and Stuart Allan (Bournemouth University, UK)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 14
Source title: Public Service, Governance and Web 2.0 Technologies: Future Trends in Social Media
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ed Downey (State University of New York, College at Brockport, USA)and Matthew A. Jones (Portland State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0071-3.ch011

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Abstract

This chapter offers an analysis of one instance of “mass self-communication” namely the website WikiLeaks. Founded in 2006 by Australian internet activist Julian Paul Assange, WikiLeaks aimed to facilitate an anonymous electronic drop box for whistleblowers. WikiLeaks has promoted the cause of investigative journalism, organising citizens into a powerful force of news-gatherers, and laying bare a wealth of privileged information. By first disrupting and then decentralising relations of power, WikiLeaks encourages new ways of thinking. At the heart of this process is a radical recasting of what counts as a public service ethos, one which promises to reinvigorate traditional conceptions of journalism’s role and responsibilities in a democratic culture.

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