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Media Update - Wikileaks

Jim Riley

1st December 2010

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Wikileaks is all over the media at the moment so it’s time we sociology teachers updated our material. Giddens talk on climate change (see earlier post) pointed out the important role which bloggers are having in that debate. Wikileaks is interesting therefore in applying to debates about the freedom of the press and debates about ownership and control, Pluralist and Marxist models of the media. Here are a couple of links:

http://wikileaks.org/media/about.html

and an interesting article about one of the figures behind Wikileads - Julian Assange:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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