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    Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency

    Written by Micah Sifry

    Narrated by Alan Schwartz

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    The United States government is diligent—some might say to the point of obsession—in defending its borders against invaders. Now we are told a small, international band of renegades armed with nothing more than laptops presents the greatest threat to the U.S. regime since the close of the Cold War. WikiLeaks’ release of a massive trove of secret official documents has riled politicians from across the spectrum. Even noted free-speech advocate Floyd Abrams blames WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the certain defeat of federal shield-law legislation protecting journalists. Hyperbole, hysteria? Certainly. Welcome to the Age of Transparency. But political analyst and writer Micah Sifry argues that WikiLeaks is not the whole story: it is a symptom, an indicator of an ongoing generation and philosophical struggle between older, closed systems, and the new open culture of the Internet. Despite Assange's arrest, the publication of secret documents continues. As Sifry shows, this is part of a larger movement for greater governmental and corporate transparency: "When you combine connectivity with transparency -- the ability for more people to see, share, and shape what is going on around them -- the result is a huge increase in social energy, which is being channeled in all kinds of directions."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTalking Book Audio
    Release dateNov 2, 2011
    ISBN9781610618106
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    Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency
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    Micah Sifry

    Micah Sifry is the co-founder and curator of the Personal Democracy Forum (where Julian Assange has spoken twice), editor of its award-winning techPresident.com blog, and a senior technology adviser to the Sunlight Foundation. A former editor and writer at The Nation magazine, he is the author of Spoiling for a Fight: third-party politics in America, co-author of Is That a Politician in Your Pocket?: Washington on $2 million a day, and co-editor of two anthologies: The Iraq War Reader: history, documents, opinions and The Gulf War Reader: history, documents, opinions. He is also a member of the board of Consumers Union.

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