A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Caroline Leader’s Flow Favorite: Jayson Harsin’s exploration of WikiLeaks provides a wide shot of the famed web scandal within a larger political, global and ideological landscape. By presenting five theses, his article creates endless potential for further research.
Harsin offers perspective on current scholarship about political unrest in Africa by offering a case study of media framing of the French “banlieue” riots of 2005.
The myriad controversies surrounding Wikileaks holds lessons about changing relations between new and old media forms and production; attention, circulation, media capital and celebrity; political economy and journalism; and even democracy and international relations.
In this article, Jayson Harsin reconsiders the definition of news in response to the emergence of the rumor bomb and convergence culture.
Reformulating Virilio to account for the speed and power of rumor in convergent times.
