Twelve Theses on WikiLeaks

Lovink, Geert; Riemens, Patrice

doi:10.1057/9781137275745.0022

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“…A wide variety of commentators have described the WikiLeaks network in the terms of information warfare (Beckett and Ball, 2012;Leigh and Harding, 2011;Lovink, 2010;Sifry, 2011). This may be considered unsurprising given that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, comes from a background in hacking and was a figure of some renown during the 1990s in Australia's hacker community (Assange, 2011).…”

Section: Wikileaks and Information Warmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Geert Lovink (2010) has explained this conflict in less incendiary terms, arguing that 'What some see as "citizen journalism" others calls "info war"' (p. 4). Nick Davies, a Guardian journalist who worked closely with WikiLeaks over the release of the Afghanistan war logs, described the US response to the WikiLeaks network directed against Assange and its other members as an information war against WikiLeaks (Leigh and Harding, 2011: 99).…”

Section: Cyber-terrorism Against the Statementioning

confidence: 99%

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Organizational resistance as a vector of deterritorialization: The case of WikiLeaks and secrecy havens

Munro

2015

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This article investigates the relations of power and resistance manifest by the WikiLeaks network. The primary research question of this inquiry is, 'what power relations and possibilities for resistance are presented by WikiLeaks as a novel form of network organization?' The article shows that WikiLeaks has been able to exert influence from the periphery of existing networks by exploiting vectors of 'deterritorialization' to destabilize existing power relations. The article contributes to the literature on the network organization by developing an account of resistance to State and corporate power in terms of an 'absolute deterritorialization'. This idea has important implications for the tactics of resistance in network organizations, where vectors of deterritorialization have become a defining feature of resistance tactics of the WikiLeaks network. 'We do not lack communication. On the contrary we have too much of it. We lack resistance to the present'.

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Section: Wikileaks and Information Warmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cyber-terrorism Against the Statementioning

confidence: 99%