Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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Books on WikiLeaks

31 January, 2011 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

The Guardian has published a book on WikiLeaks today, with The New York Times and Der Speigel also presenting their version of events in book format – perhaps they’re all just trying to get in before Julian Assange publishes his chronicle?

I will update this post with order details and other books as they become available. If you come across any that are not listed, please do let me know.

The Guardian:
Wikileaks, by David Leigh & Luke Harding, £6.99

Inside Wikileaks, by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, £7.99

WikiLeaks Versus the World [Hardback], by Julian Assange, £16.00

The New York Times:
Open Secrets: Wikileaks, War and American Diplomacy [ebook], by Alexander Star (ed) Bill Keller (intro), £4.30

Der Spiegel:
WikiLeaks: Public Enemy No. 1, by Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark [not found link to translated version yet]

Bloggers:
The Age of Wikileaks: From Collateral Murder to Cablegate (and Beyond), By Greg Mitchell, £7.61

Filed Under: Blog, Citizen Journalism, Journalism Tagged With: Bill Keller, David Leigh, Der Spiegel, Greg Mitchell, guardian, Holger Stark, Julian Assange, Luke Harding, Marcel Rosenbach, New York Times, NYT, Wikileaks

BBC World Service – Documentaries – Citizen journalism – democracy or chaos?

9 September, 2009 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Michael Buerk talks to bloggers and critics from Sri Lanka, Iran, Burma, and Iraq on BBC World Service.

‘Authenticity’ is what citizen journalists believe they are about, seeing themselves as Davids fighting against Goliaths. But critics point to problems of fakery, manipulation, partisanship, bias, and lack of accountability. Why it should be assumed that ‘the little man’ is necessarily morally superior to ‘the big organisation’?

Yet in countries where freedom of expression is repressed, it is bloggers who are challenging authoritarian regimes in ways traditional journalists cannot. Citizen journalists are enabling the rest of us to read stories and to see pictures that repressive regimes would rather stayed secret.

The critics remain vocal. What has really been achieved? Small victories, perhaps, but no Watergates as yet. And will this phenomenon extend democracy or end in chaos?

[…]

‘What is going on,’ he reports, ‘is a struggle between old power and new technology for the control of cyberspace itself.’”

Listen to part one of the broadcast here:
BBC World Service – Documentaries – Citizen journalism – democracy or chaos?

Filed Under: Citizen Journalism, Links Tagged With: bbc world service, burma, Citizen Journalism, iran, iraq, myanmar, sri lanka