Posts Tagged: wikileaks

A Genealogy Of LiveLeak: From Transgressive Teen To Mannered Man

By Maurice Dharampal, June 17, 2021

In early May 2021, the internet lost a controversial yet vital part of its history. Seemingly out of the blue, video hosting platform LiveLeak shut down. It was a staple website for gore content, especially among millennials or other early internet users, and for its information transparency and unrestricted censorship to citizen journalists, whistleblowers and [...]

Critique of Social Media: Concepts, Networks, Strategies – Experiences

By margreet riphagen, April 28, 2011

April 27,  4:00pm, Rogers Communication Centre, Room 202
Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario More information about the seminar you can find here: http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/news/WikiLeaks_The_Politics_of_Exposure.html   The purpose of this series of events is to encourage critical dialogue on the phenomena of Wikileaks. We aim to explore the theoretical and discursive tensions inherent in representations of Wikileaks, as well as possibilities [...]

Wikileaks und die Folgen out now!

By margreet riphagen, January 24, 2011

Mit Beiträgen von: Dirk Baecker, Mercedes Bunz, Wolfgang Ischinger, John Kornblum, Jaron Lanier, Geert Lovink und Patrice Riemens, Christoph Möllers, Volker Perthes, Rahul Sagar, Felix Stalder und anderen. http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/wikileaks_und_die_folgen-_6170.html Ein Plot wie aus einem Agententhriller: Ein undurchsichtiger Hackerkönig veröffentlicht Hunderttausende geheimer Dokumente und löst damit internationale Verwicklungen aus. Was noch vor einem Jahr ein unrealistisches [...]