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The Leak Heard Round the World
Cablegate, Wikileaks, and the Evolving Global Mediascape
10:30am
Friday October 19 2012
Venue: Dalhousie University, Rowe Management Building, Room 1009
Address: 6100 University Avenue
Cost: Free
Dr. Lisa Lynch
Department of Journalism, Concordia University
This talk explores the global media diffusion of Wikileaks/Cablegate documents, a collection of US diplomatic cables leaked in collaboration with both major international media outlets and smaller regional publications. Though Wikileaks had hoped the cables would be freely available around the globe as a catalyst for social and political change, a combination of factors, including news filtering, censorship, and media competition, affected how the cables circulated to, and were received by, global media audiences. Studying these patterns of circulation allows us to see how news travels internationally in a moment when information technologies are paradoxically liberating and constraining the free flow of information.
Organizer:Bertrum MacDonald - 494-2472 or bertrum.macdonald@dal.ca
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