Wikileaks : news in the networked era / Charlie Beckett with James Ball.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beckett, Charlie.

Contributor:

Ball, James (Journalist)

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

WikiLeaks (Organization).

Leaks (Disclosure of information)--Political aspects.

Leaks (Disclosure of information).

Journalism--Political aspects.

Journalism.

Journalism--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 198 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book analyzes WikiLeaks as a journalistic phenomenon, working systematically to see how it does and does not fit with other forms of journalism, and what its existence and the response to it has to say about the contemporary nature of media, journalism, and the sharing of information. It is an important book because WikiLeaks is an important phenomenon, and this is the first attempt to look at WikiLeaks in a book-length analysis. It focuses not on academic theory or political judgment, but on practical questions of what WikiLeaks is, what it did, how organizations and the public have responded, and what this might mean for news reporting in an era of interlinked ownership and Internet communications. The prose is informal and accessible; the authors work through the basic philosophical and practical questions (how does WikiLeaks challenge alternative journalism, mainstream journalism, and authority? What are the explicit and the traditional responsibilities of journalists? Of journalism organizations?). They look at what WikiLeaks released about the Afghan and Iraq wars and how much of it was secret. They consider WikiLeaks in terms of the future of journalism, and end with a discussion of what it means for social media to function as a form of, or substitute for, journalism. The authors are the director of POLIS, the media think-tank of the London School of Economics, and a newspaper journalist (The Guardian, London, UK) and visiting teacher at London's City University. This is an important book for library collections, general readers, and readers with a specific interest in journalism, social media, or media and society. Distributed by Wiley. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

1. What was new about WikiLeaks? The creation of WikiLeaks ; The challenge of WikiLeaks to alternative journalism ; The challenge of WikiLeaks to mainstream media journalism ; The challenge of WikiLeaks to power

2. The greatest story ever told? The Afghan war logs, Iraq war logs and the Embassy cables. Introduction ; Collaboration and the Afghan war logs ; The Iraq war logs: collaboration under stress ; The cables and the legal attack ; Rights, risks and responsibilities ; The responsibility of journalism to avoid harm ; Responsibility to tell the truth ; Responsibility to hold power to account ; Conclusion

3. WikiLeaks and the future of journalism. Introduction ; WikiLeaks as part of the battle for the open Net ; WikiLeaks as a model ; Hacktavism redux ; Advocacy NGO journalism ; Foundation and public journalism ; Mainstream whistle-blowers

4. Social media as disruptive journalism: media, politics and network effects. Transparency and the network ; Social media as political communications: 'The Arab Spring' ; WikiLeaks: what next? ; Conclusion: WikiLeaks, networked journalism and power.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-189) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780745676050

0745676057

Publisher Number:

99984034641

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