The WikiLeaks Bibliography is officially launching September 1, 2020. It is designed to be a resource for readers of all kinds, and it aims to provide a foundation for a better, clearer understanding of WikiLeaks and the worldview that inspired it.
Though Julian Assange is one of the most discussed individuals of the last decade, journalists and academics rarely make direct reference to his own statements—especially in the United States. Most of the time, those who comment on WikiLeaks feel entitled to impute ideas and behaviors to Assange, rhetorically transforming him from who he is into […]
In January 2021, a United Kingdom court rejected the United States’ request to have Julian Assange extradited across the Atlantic. The judge stated that, while the US charges against Assange were legitimate, she feared that the harsh conditions of the US prison system would drive Assange to suicide. This decision was based on mounting evidence […]
The WikiLeaks Bibliography exists because scholarship on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange is, well, utterly horrendous. Indeed, the poor state of academic research on WikiLeaks is the reason I began researching WikiLeaks at all. I believed that this field needed an intervention, one that actually applied standards of empirical rigor and primary source analysis. Unfortunately, the […]
Preface On March 2, 2020, the journal Internet Histories published to its online first section the essay “Against technocratic authoritarianism: A short intellectual history of the cypherpunk movement” by Enrico Beltramini. The essay later appeared in Internet Histories Vol. 5, No. 2 (2021). This article was perhaps the first academic attempt at analyzing the history […]
On Sunday, the New York Times published a report by its media columnist, Ben Smith, supposedly shedding new light on The Intercept’s failures to protect Reality Winner, a former National Security Agency employee who is now serving time in federal prison for leaking a document to The Intercept in 2017. The article is about neither […]
