{"id":181,"date":"2016-11-18T00:47:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T00:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electionanalysis2016.us\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2016-11-18T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:30:34","slug":"taking-julian-assange-seriously-considering-wikileaks-role-in-the-us-presidential-campaign","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/taking-julian-assange-seriously-considering-wikileaks-role-in-the-us-presidential-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Julian Assange seriously: considering WikiLeaks\u2019 role in the US presidential campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row \"><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-lg-3 col-md-3 col-xs-12 col-sm-3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.electionanalysis2016.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scott_Eldridge-300x300.png\" alt=\"scott_eldridge\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scott_Eldridge-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scott_Eldridge-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scott_Eldridge-60x60.png 60w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Scott_Eldridge.png 453w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ProfileText6\">\n<p class=\"BIO\"><strong><span class=\"CharOverride-35\">Dr Scott A. Eldridge II<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"BIO\"><em>Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies and Media in the University of Groningen<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"BIO\"><span class=\"EMAIL\">Email: s.a.eldridge.ii@rug.nl<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-256\" src=\"http:\/\/www.electionanalysis2016.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-6-296x300.png\" alt=\"US2016 - Section 6\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-6-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-6-768x779.png 768w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-6-1010x1024.png 1010w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-6-60x60.png 60w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-6.png 1018w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"CampaignQuote6\">Section 6: Digital Campaign<\/h5>\n<div class=\"page-list\"><ul class=\"list-group-item\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-179\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/did-russia-just-hand-donald-trump-the-presidency\/\">Did Russia just hand Donald Trump the Presidency?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-183\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/social-media-did-not-give-us-donald-trump-and-it-is-not-weakening-democracy\/\">Social media did not give us Donald Trump and it is not weakening democracy<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-185\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/trump-and-the-triumph-of-affective-news-when-everyone-is-the-media\/\">Trump and the triumph of affective news when everyone is the media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-187\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/tweeting-the-election-political-journalists-and-a-new-privilege-of-bias\/\">Tweeting the election: political journalists and a new privilege of bias?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-189\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/the-dissolution-of-news-selective-exposure-filter-bubbles-and-the-boundaries-of-journalism\/\">The dissolution of news: selective exposure, filter bubbles, and the boundaries of journalism<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-191\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/fighting-the-red-feed-and-the-blue-feed\/\">Fighting the red feed and the blue feed<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-193\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/two-tribes-go-to-vote-symbolism-on-election-day\/\">Two tribes go to vote: symbolism on election day<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-195\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/ideas-are-for-sharing\/\">Ideas are for sharing<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-197\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/in-the-age-of-social-media-voters-still-need-journalists\/\">In the age of social media, voters still need journalists<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-199\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/dark-magic-the-memes-that-made-donald-trumps-victory\/\">Dark magic: the memes that made Donald Trump\u2019s victory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-lg-9 col-md-9 col-xs-12 col-sm-9\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"FIRST-PARA\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">In the final months of the US presidential campaign, Julian Assange returned to form, injecting into the election new questions about politics and politicians, and reigniting a discussion\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"REGULAR\">of WikiLeaks\u2019 particular brand of digital journalism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">At a time when attention was on what we hoped to know about Donald Trump \u2013 his tax releases, his income, his suitability for office \u2013 WikiLeaks presented us with a series of email releases about Clinton \u2013 from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and campaign manager John Podesta \u2013 that instead posed new questions about Clinton in the late stages of a\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"REGULAR\">campaign that seemed increasingly heading for victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\">The first reaction was of conspiracy \u2013 targeting Clinton seemed anathema to the \u2018general consensus\u2019, such that it was. This risked a liberal order, where\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2016\/10\/trump-democracy-election-2016\/504617\/\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">Trump represented a decline of Western democracy<\/span><\/a>, and while fallible,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/11\/perspective-on-the-flaws-of-hillary-clinton-and-donald-trump\/506042\/\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">Clinton could preserve such a world<\/span><\/a>. Assange was seen as colluding with Russian hackers (casting doubt on the material), disrupting democratic norms (leading to a severing of his internet access while campaigns concluded), and of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/5c8u9l\/we_are_the_wikileaks_staff_despite_our_editor\/d9uk56x\/\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">going after the wrong target<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/5c8u9l\/we_are_the_wikileaks_staff_despite_our_editor\/d9uoawv\/\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">pining for as revelatory a release about Trump<\/span><\/a>). This last accusation was made with such strength that WikiLeaks responded with its vision of journalism:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/Assange-Statement-on-the-US-Election.html\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">\u201can open model of journalism that gatekeepers are uncomfortable with, but which is perfectly harmonious with the First Amendment.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">To make sense of WikiLeaks in this context, however, requires understanding its dual mission: As journalism, and as a sharp critic of the same.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\">Since its emergence, WikiLeaks sought to irritate dominant notions of journalism, attacking mainstream journalism as complacent, while advocating that for the public which journalism should serve, WikiLeaks\u2019 approach was in their interest. We are also reminded in these disclosures that Assange\u2019s philosophy (<a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/About.html\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">as it can be discerned<\/span><\/a>) has never fit \u2018left\u2019 versus \u2018right\u2019 ideologies easily, and rather is oriented sharply against the \u2018powerful\u2019. As an editor, Assange expresses this through familiar journalistic ideals as a watchdog, and a strong commitment to the public. Hillary Clinton, first as Secretary of State and then as candidate, has been a symbol of the way power has been consolidated within a small circle of actors, and frequent subject of WikiLeaks\u2019 focus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\">The late David Carr captured this well when he headlined a piece exploring WikiLeaks and compatriots in 2010 as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/26\/business\/media\/26carr.html\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">\u201cJournalists, Provocateurs, maybe both?\u201d<\/span><\/a>. In its simplicity, this outlines the challenge WikiLeaks presents not only as a prominent voice in the news, but also as an organization that moves ably between journalistic and activist roles, with little consternation of whether that suits dominant persuasions of either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">This latest episode reminds us as well of the capability of digitally adept actors to be particularly disruptive when donning a journalistic mantle: an embarrassed Debbie Wasserman-Schultz stepped down from DNC leadership after emails showed she favored Clinton over Bernie Sanders, leaks in the Podesta \u2018tranche\u2019 revealed Democratic operative Donna Brazile sharing a debate question with the campaign, prompting her resignation as an analyst for CNN, and long the subject of speculation the Podesta emails also gave the public its first glimpse of Clinton\u2019s paid speeches to Wall Street (fittingly the focus was on maintaining \u2018private\u2019 and \u2018public\u2019 positions on policy, something\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"REGULAR\">made difficult by new journalistic actors like Julian Assange).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\">Finally, for understanding the challenges WikiLeaks presents to journalism, one has to see that the reaction to disregard their approach to journalism indicates a tendency to valorize certain traditions of journalism that dictate what is permissible\u2013 a \u2018good\u2019 way to do journalism based on traditional norms. Yet when we look at journalism\u2019s socio-functional roles (news and journalism shaping, informing, and challenging our understanding of society) we can find in WikiLeaks\u2019 work at least an embrace of these notions, even if it does so while irritating prominent visions of what journalism is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/08\/10\/489531198\/wikileaks-offers-reward-in-search-for-democratic-party-staffers-killer\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">or drifting towards conspiracy<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\">A week after the US elections,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/bored-and-irrelevant-julian-assange-plays-kitty-cat-dr-1788973652\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">a photo was posted online at Gizmodo.com of a cat<\/span><\/a>, wearing a necktie, parading around in a window of the Ecuadorian Embassy. This cat is just the sort of clich\u00e9d image we have come to expect traipsing across the internet, but for the seriousness of the cat\u2019s owner, Julian Assange, a man whose public persona exudes anything but frivolity, and whose embrace of digital technologies and media are anything but clich\u00e9d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">Dismissed in the headline as \u201cbored and irrelevant, Julian Assange\u2026\u201d, the tail end of the US campaign has shown that rather than irrelevant (though possibly still bored), Assange and his inclination to expose information continues to shape how we are able to view the world, and the way journalism is embraced by an increasingly vast set of actors working online. Irritating to some, uncomfortable to many, WikiLeaks\u2019 approach to sharing news and information has once again placed on center stage provocative questions about what it is to \u2018do\u2019 journalism in the 21st century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taking Julian Assange seriously: considering WikiLeaks\u2019 role in the US presidential campaign - US Election Analysis 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/taking-julian-assange-seriously-considering-wikileaks-role-in-the-us-presidential-campaign\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taking Julian Assange seriously: considering WikiLeaks\u2019 role in the US presidential campaign - 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