Radical Transparency in Geopolitical Economy: WikiLeaks, Secret Diplomacy and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

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[1] Barassi, V. (2015) Activism on the Web: Everyday Struggles Against Digital Capitalism . New York: Routledge.

[2] Birchall, C. (2011) “Introduction to ‘Secrecy and Transparency’ – The Politics of Opacity and Openness,” Theory, Culture and Society 29, 7–8 (Dec, 2011): 7–25;

[3] Birchall, C. (2014) ‘Radical Transparency?’, Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies , 14 (1), 77–88.

[4] Brinkley, M. (2013) ‘Radical Transparency’, Internal Auditor , 70 (5), 67–69.

[5] Carter, M. and Bouris, A. (2006) Freedom of Information: Balancing the Public Interest , 2nd ed. London: The Constitution Unit, UCL & Information Consultants.

[6] Fung, A. (2013) ‘Infotopia: Unleashing the Democratic Power of Transparency’, Politics & Society 41 (2), 183–212.

[7] Greenwald, G. (2014) No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State . New York: Metropolitan Books.

[8] Habermas, J. (2006) ‘Political Communication in Media Society: Does Democracy Still Enjoy an Epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research’, Communication Theory , 16, 4 (2006): 411–506, 423.

[9] Howard, P. N. and Hussain, M.M. (2013) Democracy's Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring . New York: Oxford University Press.

[10] Karhula, P. (2011) “What is the effect of WikiLeaks for Freedom of Information?” International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), Jan 19. Available at http://www.ifla.org/publications/what-is-the-effect-of-wikileaks-for-freedom-of-information> [Accessed January 2016].

[11] Latour, B. (2005) Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[12] Morozov, E. (2012) The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom . New York: Public Affairs.

[13] Morozov, E. (2013) To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism . New York: Public Affairs.

[14] Postill, J. (2014a) ‘A Critical History of Internet Activism and Social Protest in Malaysia, 1998–2011’, Asiascape: Digital Asia Journal , 1-2, 78–103.

[15] Postill, J. (2014b) ‘Freedom Technologists and the New Protest Movements: A Theory of Protest Formulas’, Convergence 20 (3), 402–418.

[16] Rafael, V. (2003) ‘The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines’, Public Culture , 15 (3), 399–425.

[17] Segal, H. S. (1985) Technological Utopianism in American Culture . Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

[18] Sifry, M. (2011) WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency . Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint.

[19] Skoric, M. A. (2012) “What is Slack about Slactivism?” Paper for the Inter-Asia Roundtable on Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Cyber Activism Research, National University of Singapore.

[20] Tufekci, Z. and Wilson, C. (2012) ‘Social Media and the decision to participate in political protest in Egypt: Observations from Tahrir Square’, Journal of Communication , 62 (2), 363–379.