WikiLeaks and Audience Identity

Olaniyi M. Talabi

ISBN 10: 3659280542 / ISBN 13: 9783659280542

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Okt 2012, 2012

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Neuware -Seeking to safeguard secrets has through the ages developed into a process through which the simple activity of human interaction is mystified and turned into a complex web of intrigues. Governments and corporations go to great length to keep out of public glare, even mundane issues that could at best only constitute mild embarrassments ( ), if made public. With the launch of a website curiously named WikiLeaks along with others in its breed, the complex task of confidentiality confronting governments and corporations has been made all the more cumbersome. This paper centers on the analyses of two audience-based studies conducted in December 2010 ¿ following the November 2010 releases by WikiLeaks of some 250,000 classified diplomatic documents belonging to the United States (US) Government. The studies were specifically selected so as to measure the immediate effects of the releases on separate audiences whilst recognizing the broad and narrow divides of ¿identities¿ within these audiences.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: WikiLeaks and Audience Identity
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Okt 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659280542
• ISBN 13: 9783659280542
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 6D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 6 millimeters depth
• Weight: 143 grams

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Synopsis

Seeking to safeguard secrets has through the ages developed into a process through which the simple activity of human interaction is mystified and turned into a complex web of intrigues. Governments and corporations go to great length to keep out of public glare, even mundane issues that could at best only constitute mild embarrassments (?), if made public. With the launch of a website curiously named WikiLeaks along with others in its breed, the complex task of confidentiality confronting governments and corporations has been made all the more cumbersome. This paper centers on the analyses of two audience-based studies conducted in December 2010 – following the November 2010 releases by WikiLeaks of some 250,000 classified diplomatic documents belonging to the United States (US) Government. The studies were specifically selected so as to measure the immediate effects of the releases on separate audiences whilst recognizing the broad and narrow divides of ‘identities’ within these audiences.

About the Author

Olaniyi M. Talabi, MA Studied Global Media and Communications at Coventry University. Public Relations Officer at Lankey Investment Ltd.,Coventry.