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-c... Dan ------------------------------------ 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@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@japan.email.ne.jp To: air-l@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
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