[Air-L] Wikileaks

[Dan Perkel]

Berkeley grad student Aaron Bady has written this really excellent analysis
that does a nice job actually looking at Assange's public writings
(something that the news media seems to ignore completely in their coverage)
to conclude that a main point of wikileaks is not necessarily to promote
"transparency" but to bring the workings of what he calls invisible
governments to a grinding halt:

"To destroy this invisible government"

http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-and-the-computer-conspiracy-%E2%80%9Cto-destroy-this-invisible-government%E2%80%9D/

Dan

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Dan Perkel
PhD Candidate
School of Information, Berkeley Center for New Media
UC Berkeley
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dperkel<http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/%7Edperkel>



On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:53 PM, simon collister <
simon_collister at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have found this a very useful starting point in discussions of Wikileaks.
>
> http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/2010/08/30/ten-theses-on-wikileaks/
>
> NB. It was posted before the most recent rounds of disclosures.
>
> Simon
>
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>
> > Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 21:01:34 +0900
> > From: tkach at japan.email.ne.jp
> > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> > Subject: [Air-L] Wikileaks
> >
> >
> > Dear Aoir-ers,
> >
> > Keen graduate students of mine in my International Politics class
> > want to discuss Wikileaks. In addition to what's been in the news
> > (newspaper articles, websites, etc.), I would like to give them
> > some academic background reading, including journal papers,
> > chapters in books, etc.
> >
> > The topic of international information disclosure, the responses
> > to such, is fascinating, but somewhat out of my current research
> > realm.
> >
> > If anyone has any resources to suggest, I'd greatly appreciate any
> > suggestions, on or off list. Would be more than willing to share
> > the results with the list.
> >
> > Thanks very much in advance for any suggestions.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki
> >
> > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
> > Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, Associate Professor
> > Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
> > University of Tsukuba
> > Email: tkach at japan.email.ne.jp
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> >
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