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    WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency

    By Micah Sifry

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    The United States government is diligent — some might say to the point of obsession — in defending its borders against invaders. Now we are told that a small, international band of renegades, armed with nothing more than laptops, presents the greatest threat to the US regime since the close of the Cold War. WikiLeaks’ release of a massive trove of secret official documents has riled politicians across the spectrum — even free-speech advocates.

    Welcome to the uncomfortable Age of Transparency. Political analyst and writer Micah Sifry argues that WikiLeaks is not the whole story: it is a symptom, an indicator, of a generational and philosophical struggle between older, closed systems, and the new, open culture of the internet. Despite the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the publication of secret documents continues around the world, and citizens are demanding greater accountability from those who wield power. As Sifry shows, this is part of a larger movement for greater governmental and corporate transparency: ‘When you combine connectivity with transparency — the ability for more people to see, share, and shape what is going on around them — the result is a huge increase in social energy, which is being channelled in all kinds of directions.’

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribe Publications
    Release dateApr 12, 2011
    ISBN9781921753800
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    WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency
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    Micah Sifry

    Micah Sifry is the co-founder and curator of the Personal Democracy Forum (where Julian Assange has spoken twice), editor of its award-winning techPresident.com blog, and a senior technology adviser to the Sunlight Foundation. A former editor and writer at The Nation magazine, he is the author of Spoiling for a Fight: third-party politics in America, co-author of Is That a Politician in Your Pocket?: Washington on $2 million a day, and co-editor of two anthologies: The Iraq War Reader: history, documents, opinions and The Gulf War Reader: history, documents, opinions. He is also a member of the board of Consumers Union.

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