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Dimensions of Modern Freedom of Expression: WikiLeaks, Policy Hacking, and Digital Freedoms

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The recent history of Internet development can easily be interpreted as a constant expansion of free communication and citizen journalism. From the open-publishing experiments by the global Indymedia network (http://www.indymedia.org), to their emergence as a mass phenomenon through blogging and commercial social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, to the incorporation of user-generated content by established media (e.g., CNN’s iReporter), to Wikipedia and similar projects, participating in the production of media messages, information, and knowledge has changed the ways in which understandings and interpretations about the world are created. The “people formerly known as the audience” (Rosen, 2006), i.e., the new generation of netizens, have applied the now-classic Indymedia slogan: “Don’t hate the media, be the media!”

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Journalism, City University, London, UK

    Benedetta Brevini (Lecturer in Media Policy) (Lecturer in Media Policy)

  2. School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, UK

    Arne Hintz (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

  3. Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Canada

    Patrick McCurdy (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Hintz, A. (2013). Dimensions of Modern Freedom of Expression: WikiLeaks, Policy Hacking, and Digital Freedoms. In: Brevini, B., Hintz, A., McCurdy, P. (eds) Beyond WikiLeaks. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137275745_9

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