Wikileaks And The Age Of Transparency
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Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency
'As this thoughtful analysis reveals, the mere existence of a new global information warehouse doesn't guarantee it will change the secretive habits of a lifetime.' Eric Beecher, chairman, Crikey'With insight and clarity, Micah Sifry explores the red-hot spot where politics and the internet intersect. An indispensable resource for the future fight over secrecy and openness.' Arianna HuffingtonThe United States government is diligent - some might say to the point of obsession - in defending its borders against invaders. Now we are told that a small, international band of renegades, armed with nothing more than laptops, presents the greatest threat to the US regime since the close of the Cold War. WikiLeaks' release of a massive trove of secret official documents has riled politicians across the spectrum - even free-speech advocates.Welcome to the uncomfortable Age of Transparency. Political analyst and writer Micah Sifry argues that WikiLeaks is not the whole story: it is a symptom, an indicator, of a generational and philosophical struggle between older, closed systems, and the new, open culture of the internet. Despite the arrest of WikiLeaks' founder, Julian Assange, the publication of secret documents continues around the world, and citizens are demanding greater accountability from those who wield power. As Sifry shows, this is part of a larger movement for greater governmental and corporate transparency: 'When you combine connectivity with transparency - the ability for more people to see, share, and shape what is going on around them - the result is a huge increase in social energy, which is being channelled in all kinds of directions.''Micah Sifry doesn't just know WikiLeaks. He sees how it relates to everything from Obama's victory to the Tea Party's appearance to electoral politics in Croatia, and he uses his incredible breadth of experience to show us how WikiLeaks is part of a large, long-term trend in favour of the spread and visibility of information about our world, including information people often don't want shared.' Clay Shirky
Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency
WikiLeaks' release of a massive trove of secret official documents has riled politicians from across the spectrum, welcoming in the Age of Transparency. But political analyst and writer Micah Sifry argues that WikiLeaks is not the whole story: it is a symptom, an indicator of an ongoing generational and philosophical struggle between older, closed systems, and the new open culture of the Internet. Sifry, who has worked with and knows Julian Assange, cogently explores the implications of WikiLeaks' ascendancy.
WikiLeaks
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.