"The Heritage of WikiLeaks: A History of Information Ethics" by Jared Bielby
by Jared Bielby
From
an already established praxis for the field of Information Ethics, the
following thesis will outline an ethics and a historical foundation for
WikiLeaks through the exposition of a four-part history of Information Ethics.
It will first trace the historical development of the field of Information
Ethics and secondly sketch the development of a theoretical foundation for
collaborative information and knowledge studies as exemplified by the wiki
phenomenon, a model, as will be argued, that arises from library ethics.
Situating the foundation of WikiLeaks within the framework of the wiki model,
it will address issues of privacy, intellectual freedom and social
responsibility, access to information, information literacy, anonymity,
transparency and intellectual property as being similarly foundational to wiki
studies, library ethics, and WikiLeaks, and will conceive WikiLeaks as
inevitably arising from the same historical dialectics as Library Ethics. The wiki
collaborative knowledge model will then
be addressed from a platform of information theory and philosophical ontology,
ultimately looking at the wider philosophical consequences of the saturation of
information, information control and flow, message and messenger and
information as moral entity, surveying the ontology debates between Rafael Capurro and Luciano Floridi,
and exploring the implications of information accountability as commentated on
by Slavojek and others.
https://www.academia.edu/8368388/The_Heritage_of_WikiLeaks_A_History_of_Information_Ethics
