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A few facts to begin with: It's been said that wikileaks has released more classified documents t... more A few facts to begin with: It's been said that wikileaks has released more classified documents than rest of the world's media combined. Wikileaks played an important, almost catalytic, role in the Tunisian uprising. Wikileaks founder and editor in chief Julian Assange has been given shelter by a small state possibly sabotaging its key diplomatic relationships with some of the super powers of the world. These facts in themselves do not prove anything but still are a good indication of the radical nature of this organization. Before formulating the question, I want to clearly enumerate things that this paper would not deal with. Firstly this paper will not touch any of the details of the released documents or the consequences their release led to. The paper would not go into any of the possible reactions of the state and the other political followup that took place because of wikileaks. In fact, the paper undertakes a very straightforward and modest task. It tries to locate wikileaks as an event of radical importance and character, a systemic rebellious by-product in the given, rather dismal, functioning of the public sphere. It would do a comparative analysis of wikileaks in relation to the institutionalized press and media, to what extent they differ and limitations of both of them and so on..and would try to locate its ideologico-politico coordinates, in the spirit of the phrase, as invented in media and elsewhere, 'the ideological battle with the state'.
A few facts to begin with: It's been said that wikileaks has released more classified documents t... more A few facts to begin with: It's been said that wikileaks has released more classified documents than rest of the world's media combined. Wikileaks played an important, almost catalytic, role in the Tunisian uprising. Wikileaks founder and editor in chief Julian Assange has been given shelter by a small state possibly sabotaging its key diplomatic relationships with some of the super powers of the world. These facts in themselves do not prove anything but still are a good indication of the radical nature of this organization. Before formulating the question, I want to clearly enumerate things that this paper would not deal with. Firstly this paper will not touch any of the details of the released documents or the consequences their release led to. The paper would not go into any of the possible reactions of the state and the other political followup that took place because of wikileaks. In fact, the paper undertakes a very straightforward and modest task. It tries to locate wikileaks as an event of radical importance and character, a systemic rebellious by-product in the given, rather dismal, functioning of the public sphere. It would do a comparative analysis of wikileaks in relation to the institutionalized press and media, to what extent they differ and limitations of both of them and so on..and would try to locate its ideologico-politico coordinates, in the spirit of the phrase, as invented in media and elsewhere, 'the ideological battle with the state'.