. Artworks, Videos, Performances, etc. related to the topic are also very welcome.
Contributions may wish to report, comment on or review theoretical and
empirical insights into topics such as the following (and beyond):
•What is the relationship between the most recent Wikileaks and the recent uprisings in the Arab world?
•Why has Wikileaks provoked such a huge amount of controversy and international reaction?
• What are the main legal and ethical issues raised by Wikileaks?
•Wikileaks: freedom of speech and the right to information. Where is the line drawn? Does this line even exist?
• Wikileaks: privacy, online data protection and national security.
• What are the implications of Wikileaks for the study and conceptualizing of new media journalism and political communication?
• Is Wikileaks a journalistic organization?
• Can Wikileaks be considered investigative journalism?
• How does Wikileaks challenge traditional journalistic standards?
• What type of media activism is served by Wikileaks?
• What is the role of ‘whistleblowers’ in Wikileaks (e.g. the case of Bradley Manning)?
• What are the policy implications of the extrajudicial tactics deployed to censor Wikileaks?
•
What does the collaboration between WikiLeaks and traditional
newspapers have to say about the future of mass media technologies?
• How is Wikileaks’ editor in chief, Julian Assange, significant as a
public figure? How, and by whom is he being ‘sanctified’ or ‘demonized’?
•
What is significant (feminist, post-feminist and/or non-feminist
discussions welcome) about Julian Assange's accusations of rape, in the
midst of the WikiLeaks international scandal?
• How can researchers (ethically) deal with data published by WikiLeaks?
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How ‘unexpected’ were the insights revealed by Wikileaks? Do they defy,
or merely confirm public expectations of what goes on behind political
façades?
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by June 6, 2011. Contributors are free to use any reference style
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they cite their sources throughout the article, and use endnotes, rather
than footnotes, for citations.
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