A short lecture that recaps some previous talks on WikiLeaks but adds some tentative research questions for a conference at UCLAN Preston UK on 20.6.12

1. WIKILEAKS:
NEWS IN THE NETWORKED ERA
CHARLIE BECKETT
UCLAN 20.6.12
Polis, London School of Economics and
Political Science
@CharlieBeckett
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/
Polis@lse.ac.uk

3. What’s NOT new about
WikiLeaks?
 Leaks and law-breaking
 Political
 ‘Charismatic’ leadership
 It’s a source, a news agency, a
publisher of last resort

4. What IS new about WikiLeaks
 Immunity
 Scale & efficiency
 Transnational
 Networked exploit

5. What WikiLeaks Is Not
 Accountable
 Transparent
 Interactive
 Political
 Sustainable?

6. What next for WikiLeaks?
 Networked journalism exploit
 Transparency NGO?
 Alternative, ‘hactavist’, disrupter?
 Personality vehicle/marginal
alternative media cult

9. Some research questions for
journalism studies regarding
new hybrid (social) media
enterprises
 What impact on mainstream media & public
sphere?
 How can msm network into these exploits?
 How representative of developing trends?
 How sustainable?
 What kind of ethical typology is emerging?

10. WIKILEAKS:
NEWS IN THE NETWORKED ERA
CHARLIE BECKETT
Polis, London School of Economics and
Political Science
@CharlieBeckett
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/
Polis@lse.ac.uk