Global Media Journal - Australian Edition - Volume 5:1 2011 - TOC

Volume 5, Issue 1: 2011

WIKILEAKS: Journalism and the 21st Century Mediascape

Editorial

Editorial
Hart Cohen and Antonio Castillo

Refereed Papers

Weeding out WikiLeaks (and why it won't work): legislative recognition of public whistleblowing in Australia
A. J. Brown – - John F Kearney Professor of Public Law, Griffith University, Australia

Globally Networked Public Spheres? The Australian Media Reaction to WikiLeaks
Terry Flew & Bonnie Liu Rui – Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

The Political Economy of WikiLeaks: Power 2.0? Surveillance 2.0? Criticism 2.0? Alternative Media 2.0?
Christian Fuchs – Chair in Media and Communication Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden

“Call me, Love, Your Wife”: Wikileaks, the 9/11 Pager Messages and the framing of ‘history’
Lisa Lynch – Department of Journalism, Concordia University, Canada

Propaganda and the Ethics of WikiLeaks
Randal Marlin – Carleton University, Canada

WikiLeaks and Mega Plumbing Issues – Unresolved Dilemmas Revisited
Rod Tiffen – University of Sydney, Australia

Internet Piracy as a Hobby: What Happens When the Brazilian Jeitinho Meets Television Downloading
Vanessa Mendes Moreira De Sa – University of Western Sydney, Australia

Cries from Babylon: The Problem of Compassion in Australian Refugee Policy
Jonathan Foye & Paul Ryder – School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Essays

Can we Handle the Truth? Whistleblowing to the Media in the Digital Era
Dr Suelette Dreyfus, Dr Reeva Lederman, Dr Rachelle Bosua, Dr Simon Milton - The University of Melbourne, Australia

WikiLeaks in Mexico: a penetrated State, the fall of an ambassador and a frustrated president
Claudia Magallanes Blanco and Ana Lidya Flores Marín – Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, México

“If they’re collecting all of this information, they’re surely using it, right?” WikiLeaks’ Impact on Post-Soviet Central Asia
Christopher Schwartz – Managing Editor NewEurasia (English)

Fiction

The Big Geek
Christopher Kremmer

Presentation

‘How Wikileaks will transform mainstream media’, Introduction by Peter Fray, Presentation by Kristinn Hrafnsson.
USYD Package – A Sydney Ideas lecture co-presented with the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia

Postgraduate Submissions

An examination into Australian news coverage of Papua New Guinea
Jessica Carter — University of Sydney, Australia

Can WikiLeaks Save Journalism and Democracy?
Josh Rosner — University of Canberra, Australia

Book Reviews

WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy
Reviewed by Hart Cohen — University of Western Sydney, Australia

Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age: The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran
Reviewed by Tim Hamlett — Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

Carl Hoffman — The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes
Reviewed by Rob Ewing — Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

Lindsay Tanner — Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy
Reviewed by Myra Gurney — University of Western Sydney, Australia

Daniel Domscheit-Berg — Inside WikiLeaks & Andrew Fowler — The Most Dangerous Man in the World
Reviewed by Tim Hamlett — Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

Micah Sifry — WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency
Reviewed by Xanthe Kleinig

Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff — Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
Reviewed by Reisa Levine

Suelette Dreyfus & Julian Assange — Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier
Reviewed by Catriona Menzies-Pike — Managing Editor, New Matilda

Film Reviews

John Pilger — The War You Don’t See
Reviewed by Juan Salazar — University of Western Sydney, Australia

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