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Revelations

Autor: Brian Rappert

Número de Páginas: 147

From tabloid headlines to scientific discoveries to investigative documentaries, the claim that truth is being revealed is commonplace today. Such attention-grabbing claims can conjure allure, sell products, launch careers, cement authority and much more besides. And yet, despite the familiarity of revelation-talk, this notion has been subject to limited academic theorizing to date outside of matters divine. Revelations sets out to examine how the making available through revealing is accomplished as well as the implications of revealing. In other words, it is concerned with how revelations are realized and what is realized through them. Central to the argument will be treating attempts to make available as processes that can entail mix – that is, as processes that combine treating truth as publicly demonstrable but also as beyond simple verification, as alternately intelligible but also as unknowable. In taking the pervasive appeal to revealing as its topic, and through drawing inspiration from a range of disciplines, this book should appeal to a variety of audiences, including those interested in secrecy, conspiracy, expertise, celebrity, science and technology.

WikiLeaks y Assange

Autor: David Leigh , Luke Harding

Número de Páginas: 282

La mayor filtración de la historia. Un personaje enigmático envuelto en un escándalo sexual. Cinco grandes periódicos. Un soldado acusado de alta traición. La diplomacia mundial al descubierto. Todos estos ingredientes conforman lo que ya se considera el mayor escándalo de los últimos tiempos. Y dos de sus principales protagonistas, los periodistas del Guardian David Leigh y Luke Harding, las primeras personas a quienes Julian Assange entregó los documentos secretos, nos cuentan los entresijos de la historia. Pero, ¿quién es Assange? ¿Se trata de un mesías de la transparencia política o de un ciberterrorista al que hay que perseguir? Los autores nos revelan, con todo lujo de detalles, la vida de ese enigmático personaje, su infancia en Australia, sus primeras actividades en grupos de activistas hackers, el nacimiento de WikiLeaks y los presuntos delitos sexuales que cometió en Suecia, acontecimientos que describen con todo detalle. Asimismo, el libro reconstruye la trama que permitió sacar a la luz los documentos. Desde la %13conversión%13 del soldado Manning, a los primeros documentos secretos sobre Iraq y Afganistán, pasando por la persecución de la CIA a...

Dans la tête de Julian Assange

Autor: Guillaume Ledit , Olivier Tesquet

Número de Páginas: 166

Avec WikiLeaks, organisation dont il est l’incarnation médiatique, Julian Assange a publié des centaines de milliers de documents dénonçant pêle-mêle la corruption des élites, la surveillance de masse, la fraude fiscale, l’absence de transparence des institutions gouvernementales ou les horreurs des guerres menées par les États-Unis. Il est aussi devenu un ennemi public. Son objectif ? La transparence totale pour les puissants, la vie privée absolue pour les citoyens. Le moyen ? Des masses de documents confidentiels, et une stratégie médiatique offensive, qui ont fait de lui la figure – parfois répulsive – du lanceur d’alerte contemporain.

Julian Assange: WikiLeaks Founder

Autor: Melissa Higgins

Número de Páginas: 114

This title examines the remarkable life of Julian Assange. Readers will learn about Assange's family background, childhood, education, and controversial work as the creator and self-proclaimed journalist behind the "whistleblower" website WikiLeaks. Color and black & white photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts, additional resources, Web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Essential Lives is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

La Société d'exposition. Désir et désobéissance à l'ère numérique

Autor: Bernard E. Harcourt

Número de Páginas: 212

Bernard E. Harcourt propose une critique puissante de notre nouvelle transparence virtuelle. Il livre une analyse de ce que les technologies big data font à nos vies, et de la manière dont elles s'y introduisent, et révèle l'ampleur de notre renoncement, volontaire, à la liberté – jusqu'à l'acceptation de toutes les dérives sécuritaires. Ces atteintes à nos libertés sont flagrantes ; pourtant, nous ne semblons pas nous en soucier. Exploitant notre désir sans fin d'avoir accès à tout, tout le temps, les géants d'Internet dressent un portrait de notre propre intimité, collectent des millions de données sur nos activités, nos centres d'intérêt et nos relations, tandis que les agences de renseignement les croisent aux milliards de communications qu'elles enregistrent chaque jour. Nous continuons cependant, et malgré notre connaissance de l'instrumentalisation de ces données, de publier nos photos de familles, nos humeurs et nos pensées. Nous donnons en caisse, en même temps que notre carte bleue, nos adresses email et postale. D'où vient le sentiment de fatalité à l'égard de cette transgression du public et du privé ? Ce livre montre d'une manière...

The Trial of Julian Assange

Autor: Nils Melzer

Número de Páginas: 369

The shocking story of the legal persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the dangerous implications for the whistleblowers of the future. In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. In the aftermath Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman of Wikileaks, found himself at the center of a media storm, accused of hacking and later sexual assault. He spent the next seven years in asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, fearful that he would be extradited to Sweden to face the accusations of assault and then sent to US. In 2019, Assange was handed over to the British police and, on the same day, the U.S. demanded his extradition. They threatened him with up to 175 years in prison for alleged espionage and computer fraud. At this point, Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, started his investigation into how the US and UK governments were working together to ensure a conviction. His findings are explosive, revealing that Assange has faced grave and systematic due process violations, judicial bias, collusion and manipulated evidence. He has been the victim...

No Heroes, No Monsters

Autor: Anna Ardin

Número de Páginas: 356

No Heroes, No Monsters focuses on the dramatic struggle of Anna Ardin, the WikiLeaks activist who, in 2010, came forward to report sexual abuse by Julian Assange. This is her testimony to a legal trial that was replaced by an Internet tribunal. A tribunal where women's rights are all too often both neglected and weaponized. A tribunal that every day of the year chooses a new woman to be the most hated. The book goes beyond the headlines - the black and white pictures of heroes or monsters - and emphasizes the need to acknowledge the shades of gray. In the book Ardin navigates through her personal life, the sexual assault charges, the media frenzy and the extensive hatred that followed from accusing a popular man, as well as through the unfair accusations of Chelsea Manning and WikiLeaks. Ardin's story is a call for justice for everyone abused, holding even important people accountable. It's a powerful compilation of the feminist lessons Ardin learned from living, for over a decade, in the shadow of the "hero" myth.

El quinto elemento

Autor: Alejandro Suárez Sánchez-ocaña

Número de Páginas: 306

Los clásicos hablaban de cuatro elementos: tierra, agua, fuego y aire, así como de un quinto invisible, el éter. Estos cuatro elementos son también las cuatro divisiones de los ejércitos, a los que ahora se añade un quinto elemento: el ciberespacio (también, como el éter, invisible y casi indetectable). Una nueva contienda mundial ha comenzado y todos somos soldados en las trincheras. El nuevo gran conflicto internacional trasciende todas las fronteras físicas y se libra simultáneamente en cientos de países. El nuevo escenario de la lucha son las redes digitales, el ciberespacio y el iceberg de la gran Internet oculta que no conocemos. Quien domine la información y la sociedad intrerconectada controlará el mundo. ¿Qué papel tienen en ello los gobiernos mundiales, con agencias como el CNI español o la NSA estadounidense? ¿Cómo aprovechan este nuevo escenario criminales y terroristas? ¿Qué papel tienen las empresas y cómo se aprovechan o se defienden de ellos, según los casos? ¿Puede un ataque informático sembrar el caos y provocar un desplome económico mundial? ¿Son tus datos sólo tuyos o hay quien puede utilizarlos en tu contra? Espionaje de las...

La guerra como metáfora

Autor: Fouad Sabry

Número de Páginas: 221

Qué es la guerra como metáfora Un recurso literario y retórico que ha existido durante mucho tiempo es el uso de la guerra como metáfora. Cuando se trata de política, las metáforas de la guerra se utilizan para manejar un problema social percibido. En este contexto, el concepto de guerra sirve como sustituto de un adversario individual o estatal en el contexto de la guerra real. A veces, la metáfora de la guerra se utiliza para abordar asuntos mundanos de política interna. Cómo se beneficiará (I) Perspectivas y validaciones sobre los siguientes temas: Capítulo 1: La guerra como metáfora Capítulo 2: John Pilger Capítulo 3: Nigel Farage Capítulo 4: Relación especial (¿Reino Unido? Estados Unidos) Capítulo 5: Ray McGovern Capítulo 6: WikiLeaks Capítulo 7: Segunda Guerra Civil Estadounidense Capítulo 8: Ataque aéreo de Granai Capítulo 9: Julian Assange Capítulo 10: Filtración de documentos estadounidenses de la guerra en Afganistán ( II) Responder a las principales preguntas del público sobre la guerra como metáfora. Para quién es este libro Profesionales, estudiantes de pregrado y posgrado, entusiastas, aficionados y aquellos que quieran ir más allá del ...

Propaganda 1776

Autor: Russ Castronovo

Número de Páginas: 256

Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic, revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda. Truth, clarity, and honesty were declared virtues of the period - but rumors, falsehoods, forgeries, and unauthorized publication were no less the life's blood of liberty. Looking at famous patriots like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine; the playwright Mary Otis Warren; and the poet Philip Freneau, Castronovo provides various anecdotes that demonstrate the ways propaganda was - contrary to our instinctual understanding - fundamental to democracy rather than antithetical to it. By focusing on the persons and methods involved in Revolutionary communications, Propaganda 1776 both reconsiders the role that print culture plays in historical transformation and reexamines the widely relevant issue of how information circulates in a democracy.

Journalism in an Age of Terror

Autor: John Lloyd

Número de Páginas: 266

The threat of terrorism and the increasing power of terrorist groups has prompted a rapid growth of the security services and changes in legislation, permitting the collection of communications data. This provides journalism with acute dilemmas. The media claims responsibility for holding power to account, yet cannot know more than superficial details about the newly empowered secret services. This book is the first to analyze, in the aftermath of the Snowden/NSA revelations, relations between two key institutions in the modern state: the intelligence services and the news media. It provides the answers to crucial questions including: how can power be held to account if one of the greatest state powers is secret? How far have the Snowden/NSA revelations damaged the activities of the secret services? And have governments lost all trust from journalists and the public?

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy

Autor: Andrew Fenton Cooper , Jorge Heine , Ramesh Thakur

Número de Páginas: 990

Including chapters from some of the leading experts in the field this Handbook provides a full overview of the nature and challenges of modern diplomacy and includes a tour d'horizon of the key ways in which the theory and practice of modern diplomacy are evolving in the 21st Century.

Destination Sciences Po - Le Secret, Le Numérique - Concours commun IEP

Autor: Grégory Bozonnet

Número de Páginas: 386

Vous passez le concours commun des IEP ? L’épreuve de « Questions contemporaines » est une épreuve difficile qui requiert une culture générale vaste, faisant appel à des disciplines variées, des références classiques, mais également une bonne connaissance de l’actualité et du monde contemporain. Cet ouvrage propose une préparation complète aux thèmes 2019 de questions contemporaines avec : - La méthodologie détaillée de la dissertation - Le cours complet sur les deux thèmes - Une approche multidisciplinaire : histoire, sociologie, droit, relations internationales, sciences politiques et sciences humaines... - 100 auteurs-clés et 50 citations utiles - 20 exemples de dissertations

Ghosts of Afghanistan

Autor: Jonathan Steele

Número de Páginas: 449

A masterful blend of graphic reporting, illuminating interviews, and insightful analysis. Ghosts of Afghanistan is the first account of Afghanistan's turbulent recent history by an independent eyewitness. Jonathan Steele, an award–winning journalist and commentator, has covered the country since his first visit there as a reporter in 1981. He tracked the Soviet occupation and the communist regime of Najibullah, which held the Western–backed resistance at bay for three years after the Soviets left. He covered the arrival of the Taliban to power in Kabul in 1996, and their retreat from Kandahar under the weight of U.S. bombing in 2001. Most recently Steele has reported from the epicenter of the Taliban resurgence in Helmand. Ghosts of Afghanistan turns a spotlight on the numerous myths about Afghanistan that have bedeviled foreign policy–makers and driven them to repeat earlier mistakes. Steele has conducted numerous interviews with ordinary Afghans, two of the country's Communist presidents, senior Soviet occupation officials, as well as Taliban leaders, Western diplomats, NATO advisers, and United Nations negotiators. Comparing the challenges facing the Obama Administration...

Guilty of Journalism

Autor: Kevin Gosztola

Número de Páginas: 355

From an acclaimed independent journalist, this carefully-documented analysis of the government’s case against Julian Assange and its implications for press freedom acts as a crucial, compelling guidebook to Assange’s upcoming trial. Guilty of Journalism is a joint production of The Censored Press and Seven Stories Press. The legal action against Julian Assange is poised to culminate in a trial in the United States in 2023, and this book will help the public understand the proceedings. The establishment media's coverage of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition case has focused on his deteriorating health and what CBS News called his “secret family,” but most of this coverage failed to detail the complex issues at stake against Assange. Guilty of Journalism outlines how WikiLeaks exposed the reality of American wars, the United States government’s unprecedented indictment against Assange as a publisher, and the media’s role in persuading the public to “shoot the messenger.” This new book by Kevin Gosztola, who has spent the last decade covering Assange, WikiLeaks, and the wider war on whistleblowers, tells the full story based on testimony from dozens of...

Fear and Loathing Worldwide

Autor: Robert Alexander , Christine Isager

Número de Páginas: 351

For more than 40 years, the radically subjective style of participatory journalism known as Gonzo has been inextricably associated with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Around the world, however, other journalists approach unconventional material in risky ways, placing themselves in the middle of off-beat stories, and relate those accounts in the supercharged rhetoric of Gonzo. In some cases, Thompson's influence is apparent, even explicit; in others, writers have crafted their journalistic provocations independently, only later to have that work labelled "Gonzo." In either case, Gonzo journalism has clearly become an international phenomenon. In Fear and Loathing Worldwide, scholars from fourteen countries discuss writers from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Australia, whose work bears unmistakable traces of the mutant Gonzo gene. In each chapter, "Gonzo" emerges as a powerful but unstable signifier, read and practiced with different accents and emphases in the various national, cultural, political, and journalistic contexts in which it has erupted. Whether immersed in the Dutch crack scene, exploring the Polish version of Route 66, following the trail of the 2014 South...

This Machine Kills Secrets

Autor: Andy Greenberg

Número de Páginas: 289

Young men and women who grew up in the digital age are expressing their dissatisfaction with governments, the military and corporations in a radically new way. They are building machines - writing cryptographic software codes - that are designed to protect the individual in a cloak of anonymity, while institutional secrets are uploaded for public consumption. This movement is shining a light on governments' classified documents and exposing abuses of power like never before. From Australia to Iceland - organisations like Wikileaks, Openleaks, and Anonymous are just some of the more familiar groups that are enabling whistleblowers and transforming the next generation's notion of what activism can be. The revolution won't be televised. It'll be online. Andy Greenberg, technology writer for Forbes magazine, has interviewed all the major players in this new era of activism including Julian Assange - and blows the cover of a key activist, previously only presumed to exist, named The Architect who accomplished for at least two leak sites exactly what his name implies. In This Machine Kills Secrets, Greenberg offers a vision of a world in which institutional secrecy no longer protects...

International Society, Global Polity

Autor: Chris Brown

Número de Páginas: 412

This book provides an overview of the current state of the art in International Political Theory (IPT). It offers a coherent account of the field of IPT, placing both traditional and modern work in a clear and logical framework. The text moves from conventional accounts of the society of states to non-state-centric understandings of global politics. The first part covers international law, war, human rights and humanitarianism. The second part looks at the new human rights regime, the responsibility to protect, the ethics of war and global justice. Each chapter includes annotated reading lists, highlighting directions you can take to further your reading. International Society, Global Polity is perfect for students taking courses on International Political Theory, International Theory, Global Ethics and Global Justice.

WikiLeaks y Assange

Autor: David Leigh , Luke Harding

Número de Páginas: 280

La mayor filtración de la historia - Un soldado acusado de alta traición - La diplomacia mundial al descubierto - Cinco grandes periódicos - Un personaje enigmático envuelto en un escándalo sexual. Todos estos ingredientes conforman lo que ya se considera el mayor escándalo de los últimos tiempos. Dos de sus principales protagonistas, los periodistas del Guardian, David Leigh y Luke H arding, las primeras personas a quienes Julian Assange entregó los documentos secretos, nos cuentan los entresijos de esta historia. Pero ¿quién es Assange?, ¿se trata de un mesías de la transparencia política o de un ciberterrorista al que hay que perseguir? Los autores nos revelan, con todo detalle, la vida de este enigmático personaje, su infancia en Australia, sus primeras actividades en grupos clandestinos de hackers, el nacimiento de WikiLeaks y los presuntos delitos sexuales que cometió en Suecia. Asimismo, el libro reconstruye la trama que permitió sacar a la luz esos documentos, desde la «conversión» del soldado Manning hasta diarios secretos sobre Iraq y Afganistán, pasando por la persecución de la CIA a Julian Assange y por las medidas éticas y legales que tuvieron...