WikiLeaks is the most challenging journalistic phenomenon to have emerged in the digital era. It has provoked anger and enthusiasm in equal measure, from across the political and journalistic spectrum.
WikiLeaks poses a series of questions to the status quo in politics, journalism and to the ways we understand political communication. It has compromised the foreign policy operations of the most powerful state in the world, broken stories comparable to great historic scoops like the Pentagon Papers, and caused the mighty international news organizations to collaborate with this tiny editorial outfit. Yet it may also be on the verge of extinction.
This is the first book to examine WikiLeaks fully and critically and its place in the contemporary news environment. The authors combine inside knowledge with the latest media research and analysis to argue that the significance of Wikileaks is that it is part of the shift in the nature of news to a network system that is contestable and unstable. Welcome to Wiki World and a new age of uncertainty.
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9780745661926
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0745661920
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May 2013
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May 2013
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196
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9780745659756
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0745659756
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Jan 2012
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Feb 2012
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Jan 2012
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180
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"A cool-headed, astute analysis of the social, political and technological context in which the now infamous website was formed."
Engineering and Technology"An incisive overview of the Wikileaks saga and its implications."
The Age"This excellent study is a fascinating insight into WikiLeaks and is the first bookt o examine this new phenomenon of the age."
Orange Standard"In this terrific book, Charlie Beckett with James Ball weave the disparate threads of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks - the future of journalism, of statecraft, of secrecy - into a readable and compelling narrative. Essential for anyone interested in the future of free speech or global politics."
Clay Shirky, New York University
"A fascinating insight into Wikileaks, and what its version of transparency means for the ethics, focus and newly emerging forms of journalism in our time. Beckett and Ball have produced a book that combines timeliness with significance in its examination of the implications of Wikileaks for journalism."
David A L Levy, University of Oxford
"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand one of the biggest revolutions for journalism, whistleblowing and freedom of information."
Jo Glanville, Editor, Index on Censorship
Preface by Emily Bell
Introduction
1: What was new about WikiLeaks?
2: The greatest story ever told? The Afghan war logs, Iraq war diaries and the Embassy cables.
3: WikiLeaks and the Future of Journalism
4: Social Media as Disruptive Journalism: Media, Politics and Network Effects
Bibliography
Notes
Charlie Beckett is Director of POLIS at the London School of Economics.
James Ball is a journalist with The Guardian and visiting lecturer at City University, London.
