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Wikileaks and the age of transparency.
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ISBN: 9780300176766 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) Yale university press

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It's one of the biggest news stories for years. A charismatic, white-haired Australian sets up a website devoted to publishing leaked documents in the public interest, and then, allegedly with the aid of a disaffected American soldier, starts releasing startlingly honest cables from the US diplomatic service - with explosive results. In this lively, up-to-the-minute book, technology and politics analyst Micah Sifry tells the story of WikiLeaks in the context of the growing movement for transparency in politics and of the crowdsourcing activism that the Internet and in particular Web 2.0 has made possible. In particular, he looks at the achievements of open-source web projects that collate information for individuals and governments alike, and describes how crowdsourcing initiatives have analysed MPs' expenses, recorded political violence in Kenya and reduced bribery in India. Finally, he discusses the rather ambivalent attitudes displayed by political elites, many of whom have embraced the idea of open government in opposition only to go quiet once in power. Fascinating, thoughtful and often eye-opening, this is an essential guide to the new age of transparency.

Spoiling for a fight
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ISBN: 9781136059148 1136059148 9780203615249 0203615247 0415931428 9780415931427 0415931436 9780415931434 9781136059308 113605930X 9781136059223 1136059229 1283962721 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York Routledge

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More Americans now identify as political independents than as either Democrats or Republicans. Tired of the two-party gridlock, the pandering, and the lack of vision, they've turned in increasing numbers to independent and third-party candidates. In 1998, for the first time in decades, a third-party candidate who was not a refugee from one of the two major parties, Jesse Ventura, won election to state-wide office, as the governor of Minnesota. In 2000, the public was riveted by the Reform Party's implosion over Patrick Buchanan's presidential candidacy and by Ralph Nader's Green Party run, whi


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The big disconnect : why the internet hasn't transformed politics (yet)
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ISBN: 9781939293503 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York OR Books

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The Gulf War reader : history, documents, opinions
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ISBN: 0812919475 9780812919479 Year: 1991 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Times books,

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The Iraq war reader: history, documents, opinions
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ISBN: 9780743253475 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Touchstone Book

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The Iraq war reader : history, documents, opinions
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ISBN: 0743253477 Year: 2003 Publisher: London : Simon & Schuster international,

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Rebooting America : ideas for redesigning American democracy for the internet age.
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ISBN: 9780981750903 Year: 2008 Publisher: S.l. Personal democracy press

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