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A short lecture that recaps some previous talks on WikiLeaks but adds some tentative research questions for a conference at UCLAN Preston UK on 20.6.12
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WIKILEAKS: NEWS IN THE NETWORKED ERACHARLIE BECKETTUCLAN 20.6.12
Polis, London School of Economics and Political Science@CharlieBecketthttp://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/[email protected]
What’s NOT new about WikiLeaks?
Leaks and law-breaking Political ‘Charismatic’ leadership It’s a source, a news agency, a
publisher of last resort
What IS new about WikiLeaks ImmunityScale & efficiencyTransnationalNetworked exploit
What WikiLeaks Is Not
Accountable Transparent Interactive Political Sustainable?
What next for WikiLeaks?
Networked journalism exploit Transparency NGO? Alternative, ‘hactavist’,
disrupter? Personality vehicle/marginal
alternative media cult
Some research questions for journalism studies regarding new hybrid (social) media enterprises What impact on mainstream media & public
sphere? How can msm network into these exploits? How representative of developing trends? How sustainable? What kind of ethical typology is emerging?
WIKILEAKS: NEWS IN THE NETWORKED ERA
CHARLIE BECKETT
Polis, London School of Economics and Political Science@CharlieBecketthttp://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/[email protected]
