[csaa-forum] Invitation: Beyond Wikileaks - Sydney Ideas forum, Friday 11 October 2013, University of Sydney

[Fiona Martin]

Media at Sydney<http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/> and the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights<http://sydney.edu.au/arts/idhr/> present a

 Sydney Ideas forum, Friday 11 October

Beyond WikiLeaks:
from an international whistle-blowing platform to a global political movement



More than three years have passed since the 2010 release of U.S. embassy diplomatic cables that propelled the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks into the international spotlight. Alongside its many other political revelations, including the Afghan War Diaries, the Iraq War Logs, information exposing government corruption, illegal corporate activity and the secret dealings of the financial industry, Wikileaks Cablegate publication sparked intense debate in the realms of international diplomacy, journalism, and broader society about the conduct and representation of modern politics.

Now we are seeing WikiLeaks’ continued evolution from an international platform for political disclosure to an international political movement, including the launch of the Australian political party. Given its remarkable persistence in the face of continued legal and economic challenges what lessons does Wikileaks represent for activism, social justice movements, policy and democracy?

To reflect on this question this event will bring together a select group of scholars who have observed the WikiLeaks phenomenon since its early days, together with the editors of a new edited volume, Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism and Society, published by Palgrave in March.


Date: Friday 11 October 2013
Time: 5.30 to 7:30 pm
Venue: New Law LT 106, New Law School, Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney. Click here<http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/campus.shtml> for venue information and directions.
Cost: Free event, with registration required.
Registration: Click here<http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/planning/sydney-ideas-beyond-wikileaks> to register online now or go to  http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/planning/sydney-ideas-beyond-wikileaks


Panellists:

[Benedetta Brevini]

Benedetta Brevini is a Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Sydney and a Visiting Fellow of Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City University, London. A media reformer and journalist, Dr Brevini has been working as a journalist in Milan, New York and London for CNBC and RAI. She is the co-editor of Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism and Society (2013) and the author of Public Service Broadcasting Online: A Comparative European Policy Study of PSB 2.0.(2013)

[Professor  John Keane]

John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He is the Director of the newly-founded OnDemocracy.org initiative and the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR). Among his best-known books are The Media and Democracy (1991); Global Civil Society (2003); Violence and Democracy (2004); The Life and Death of Democracy (2009) and The Future of Representative Democracy (2011).

[Peter Fray]

Peter Fray is adjunct professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney and served as an editor of The Sydney Morning Herald from January 2009 to June 2012. In his 28-year media career he has been the editor or editor-in-chief of four metropolitan mastheads, including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Canberra Times and The Sunday Age.


[Arne Hintz]

Arne Hintz is a Lecturer at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. His publications include the book Civil Society Media and Global Governance (2009) and the co-edited volume Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism & Society (2013), as well as chapters in volumes such as The Handbook on Global Media and Communication Policy (2011) and the Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media (2010).

[Gerard Goggin]

Gerard Goggin (moderator) is the inaugural Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. His key books are Global Mobile Media (2011) and Cell Phone Culture (2006), as well as the edited collections Mobile Technology and Place (2012), Mobile Technology: From Telecommunications to Media (2009), and Mobile Phone Cultures (2008).


Media at Sydney is presented by the

Department of Media and Communications<http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/>, University of Sydney


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Dr Fiona Martin
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E: fiona.martin at sydney.edu.au
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See more at: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2013/beyond_wikileaks_forum.shtml






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