The leak before the storm what wikileaks tells us about modern communication

TY - JOUR

T1 - The leak before the storm what wikileaks tells us about modern communication

AU - Bolt, Neville

PY - 2010/8/1

Y1 - 2010/8/1

N2 - In July, 77,000 secret documents on the Afghan War flooded the Internet, released into the public domain by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. As Western governments condemn the information deluge, they confirm that they remain ill-equipped to cope with the new communications reality, in which instantaneous news-making is a many-to-many exchange, across a variety of modes and media.

AB - In July, 77,000 secret documents on the Afghan War flooded the Internet, released into the public domain by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. As Western governments condemn the information deluge, they confirm that they remain ill-equipped to cope with the new communications reality, in which instantaneous news-making is a many-to-many exchange, across a variety of modes and media.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959298178&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/03071847.2010.514104

DO - 10.1080/03071847.2010.514104

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:79959298178

SN - 0307-1847

VL - 155

SP - 46

EP - 51

JO - RUSI Journal

JF - RUSI Journal

IS - 4

ER -