"Imagine dumping nearly 400,000 paper documents -

- into a dead drop
located discretely on the hard shoulder of a road."

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"Third is the rise of new actors, 'super-empowered' individuals, capable of intervening in historical developments at a systemic level."	"First is a change in the materiality of communication. Communication becomes more extensive, more recorded and the records become more mobile."
"Finally, fourth is a structural transformation of the public sphere (through media consolidation at one pole, and the explosion of non-institutional publishers at the other), to an extent that rivals the one described by Habermas with the rise of mass media at the turn of the 20th century." p.31.	"Second is a crisis of institutions, particularly in western democracies, where moralistic rhetoric and the ugliness of daily practice are further diverging at the very moment when institutional personnel are being encouraged to think for themselves."

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"In the wake of Wikileaks' recent headline-busting exposés, a very different news and informational landscape is emerging. Whilst acknowledgeing the structural leakiness of networked organisations. Felix Stadler finds deep-rooted reasons for the crisis of information security and the new distribution of investigative journalism." p.31.

Source: Stalder, F. (2011) Double Negative Feedback: CONTAIN THIS! LEAKS, WHISTLE-BLOWERS AND THE NETWORKED NEWS ECOLOGY. MUTE. Spring/Summer, Vol. 3, #1, pp.30-37.





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