Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 4:00 pm
Thomson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish
On 28 November 2011, WikiLeaks and a small number of media partners released thousands of U.S. embassy diplomatic cables in what came to be referred to as 'Cablegate'. International diplomacy, journalism, and broader society were shaken by this extremely public disclosure of classified cables, which had been sent to the U.S. Department of State by its consulates, embassies, and diplomatic missions around the world. Among numerous other revelations, the cables exposed U.S. government war crimes, government corruption in North Africa, and misdealing within the financial sector, igniting an intense debate on the future of diplomacy and the media.
On the one year anniversary of Cablegate, Media@看片视频 will be hosting a roundtable panel consisting of contributors to the upcoming book, Beyond WikiLeaks, to highlight the broader implications of the WikiLeaks' publication of U.S. cables and the challenges it poses for networked journalism, media activism, risk society and freedom of expression.
Panelists: (Dept. Journalism, Concordia University), (Dept. of Communication, University of Ottawa), (The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto), and (Dept. Art History and Communication Studies, 看片视频 University).
Moderator: , Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications, 看片视频
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