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  • A Secret Australia

    Revealed by the WikiLeaks Exposés

    Edited by Peter Cronau, Felicity Ruby ...
    In A Secret Australia, nineteen prominent Australians discuss what Australia has learnt about itself from the WikiLeaks revelations – revelations about a secret Australia of hidden rules and loyalty to hidden agendas. However Australians may perceive their nation's place in the world – as battling sports stars, dependable ally or good international citizen – WikiLeaks has shown us a startlingly ... Read more

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  • Flat Earth News

    An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media

    by Nick Davies ...
    Does ‘fake news’ really exist? Find out from the ultimate insider.After years of working as a respected journalist, Nick Davies, in this shocking exposé, reveals what really goes on behind the scenes of this contentious industry.From a prestigious newspaper that allowed intelligence agencies to plant fiction in its columns, to the newsroom that routinely rejected stories due to racial bias, to the ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Post-Truth

    How Bullshit Conquered the World

    by James Ball ...
    2016 marked the birth of the post-truth era. Sophistry and spin have coloured politics since the dawn of time, but two shock events - the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's elevation to US President - heralded a departure into murkier territory.From Trump denying video evidence of his own words, to the infamous Leave claims of £350 million for the NHS, politics has rarely seen so many stretching the ... Read more

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  • WikiLeaks

    Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy

    Published to coincide with the forthcoming film, The Fifth Estate, starring Beneditct Cumberbatch, this tie-in edition contains two new chapters on Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, and a foreword by Alan Rusbridger.It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • News and How to Use It

    What to Believe in a Fake News World

    A society that isn’t sure what’s true can’t function, but increasingly we no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We’re barraged by a torrent of lies, half-truths and propaganda: how do we even identify good journalism any more?At a moment of existential crisis for the news industry, in our age of information chaos, News and How to Use It shows us how. From Bias to Snopes, from Clickbait to ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Breaking News

    The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

    An urgent, "fascinating" account of the revolution that has upended the news business, "a must for anyone concerned with the state of journalism today" ( Library Journal).Technology has radically altered the news landscape. Once-powerful newspapers have lost their clout or been purchased by owners with particular agendas. Algorithms select which stories we see. The Internet allows consequential ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Mad Mobs and Englishmen?

    Myths and realities of the 2011 riots

    In August 2011, London and many other English towns and cities erupted into some of the worst rioting for decades. David Cameron blamed a broken society with a sick morality; Tony Blair a defiant underclass. Yet with no evidence to support their claims, their remarks were typical of the storm of uninformed comments that followed the riots, based largely on longstanding misconceptions of why people ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Journalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Journalism entered the twenty-first century caught in a paradox. The world had more journalism, across a wider range of media, than at any time since the birth of the western free press in the eighteenth century. Western journalists had found themselves under a cloud of suspicion: from politicians, philosophers, the general public, anti-globalization radicals, religious groups, and even from ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Secret Power

    WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

    Translated by Lesli Cavanaugh-Bardelli ...
    *Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021**Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022**Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo Award 2022*'I want to live in a society where secret power is accountable to the law and to public opinion for its atrocities, where it is the war criminals who go to jail, not those who have the ... Read more

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  • Deconstructing Wikileaks

    Depending on the source, Julian Assange, the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, is regarded as either a genius or terrorist, and this exploration of the man and the organization seeks to find the truth. Delving into the heart of the business of keeping and leaking secrets, this work shows how the enterprise of WikiLeaks and Assange is shrouded in mystery, but nonetheless, seeks to expose Assange as an ... Read more

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  • Stand on Guard

    Reassessing Threats to Canada's National Security

    Series series Munk Series on Global Affairs
    In Stand on Guard, Stephanie Carvin sets out to explain the range of activities considered national security threats by Canadian security services today. As new forms of terrorism and extremism appear, especially online, we need a responsibly widened view of such threats and how they manifest in the contemporary world. Canadians should not be more fearful, Carvin explains, but a more sophisticated ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Cybercrime and the Darknet

    Revealing the hidden underworld of the internet

    by Cath Senker ...
    With the emergence of the internet new forms of crime became possible. From harassment and grooming to fraud and identity theft the anonymity provided by the internet has created a new world of crime of which we all must be aware. The threat of hackers reaches beyond the individual, threatening businesses and even states, and holds worrying implications for the world we live in.In this ... Read more

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