Beyond WikiLeaks:
Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism and Society

Edited by Benedetta Brevini, Arne Hintz and Patrick McCurdy

Palgrave Macmillan

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=637302


Revelations published by the whistleblower platform WikiLeaks,  
including the releases of U.S. diplomatic cables in what became  
referred to as 'Cablegate', put WikiLeaks into the international  
spotlight and sparked intense debate about the role and impact of  
leaks in a digital era. 'Beyond WikiLeaks' opens a space to reflect on  
the broader implications across political and media fields, and on the  
transformations that result from new forms of leak journalism and  
transparency activism. A select group of renowned scholars,  
international experts, and WikiLeaks 'insiders' discuss the  
consequences of the WikiLeaks saga for traditional media,  
international journalism, freedom of expression, policymaking, civil  
society, social change, and international politics. From short insider  
reports to elaborate and theoretically informed academic texts, the  
different chapters provide critical assessments of the current  
historical juncture of our mediatized society and offer outlooks of  
the future. Authors include, amongst others, Harvard University's  
Yochai Benkler; Graham Murdoch of Loughborough University; net  
activism scholar, Gabriella Coleman; the Director for International  
Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jillian  
York; and Guardian editor, Chris Elliott. The book also includes a  
conversation between philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, and WikiLeaks founder,  
Julian Assange, and its prologue is written by Birgitta Jónsdóttir,  
Icelandic MP and editor of the WikiLeaks video 'Collateral Murder'.


"This is a genuinely outstanding collection of crisply written,  
thoroughly argued and well-sourced essays on a landmark information  
policy and freedom case. Internationally known writers and dynamic  
younger researchers join forces to address Wikileaks' pivotal issues  
for the Internet era." - John D.H. Downing, Editor, Sage Encyclopedia  
of Social Movement Media

"Benedetta Brevini, Arne Hintz and Patrick McCurdy have assembled a  
truly impressive international range of authors to interrogate some  
key questions of our age: does Wikileaks represent a decisively new  
way of representing the world? If so, does this signal a new way of  
doing politics? In whose long-term interests, and with what  
consequences for democratic cultures? This is a landmark collection."  
- Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

"The WikiLeaks complex of information, events, networks, and people  
provides a focus for transformations of law-state-society relations.  
This book's superb entree into many of the myriad faces of the  
WikiLeaks moment tells us what should be our attendant attentions, our  
research agendas." - Sandra Braman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,  
USA

"This book traces the paradigm shift that WikiLeaks has brought for  
freedom of expression, the role of the media, and grassroots activism.  
It is a powerful intervention into the struggle for a free and open  
Internet and features authoritative contributions by a prestigious  
collection of academics, activists and public intellectuals who  
understand what is at stake." - Marc Raboy, McGill University, Canada


Contents:

Foreword; Birgitta Jonsdottir
Introduction; B.Brevini, A.Hintz & P.McCurdy
1. WikiLeaks and the Networked 4th Estate; Yochai Benkler
2. Follow the Money: WikiLeaks and the Political Economy of  
Disclosure; Benedetta Brevini & Graham Murdock
3. The Leak Heard Round the World? Cablegate in the Evolving Global  
Mediascape; Lisa Lynch
4. WikiLeaks and the Public Interest Dilemma: A View from Inside the  
Media; Chris Elliot
5. 'Something Old, Something New...': WikiLeaks, Newspapers and  
Conjoint Approaches to Political Exposure; Hopeton S. Dunn
6. WikiLeaks and Whistleblowing: The Framing of Bradley Manning; Einar  
Thorsen, Chindu Sreedharan & Stuart Allan
7. From the Pentagon Papers to Cablegate: How the Network Society Has  
Changed Leaking; Patrick McCurdy
8. Dimensions of Modern Freedom of Expression: WikiLeaks, Policy,  
Hacking, and Digital Freedoms; Arne Hintz
9. Weak Links and WikiLeaks: How Control of Critical Internet  
Resources and Social Media Companies' Business Models Undermine the  
Networked Free Press; Dwyane Winseck
10. WikiLeaks, Secrecy and Freedom of Information: The Case of the UK;  
David Banisar & Francesca Fanucci
11. WikiLeaks, Anonymous, and the Exercise of Individuality:  
Protesting in the Cloud; Stefania Milan
12. Anonymous and the Politics of Leaking; Gabriella Coleman
13. The Internet and Transparency Beyond WikiLeaks; Jillian C. York
14. WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring: The Twists and Turns of Media,  
Culture and Power; Ibrahim Saleh
15. Twelve Theses on WikiLeaks; Geert Lovink & Patrice Riemens
16. Amy Goodman in conversation with Julian Assange and Slavoj Žižek