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- Title
The Emergence of a Freedom of Information Movement: Anonymous, WikiLeaks, the Pirate Party, and Iceland.
- Authors
Beyer, Jessica L.
- Abstract
Online rhetoric about the Internet's potential to change society, the need to reform intellectual property laws, and the evils of censorship is becoming increasingly similar across sites. The push for 'freedom of information' is not restricted to online spaces, but it appears to be born from such spaces, with the concept itself shaped by the presence of the Internet and its effect on networked societies. Focusing on WikiLeaks, the Pirate Party, Anonymous, and Iceland, I describe the emerging coalescence of 'freedom of information' advocates pushing for a simultaneous liberalization and homogenization of freedom of information regulations across democracies.
- Subjects
FREEDOM of information; ANONYMOUS (Group); WIKILEAKS (Organization); PIRATE Party (Political party : Iceland); CENSORSHIP; INTELLECTUAL property; RHETORIC
- Publication
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2014, Vol 19, Issue 2, p141
- ISSN
1083-6101
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jcc4.12050