Towards Distributed Citizen Participation: Lessons from WikiLeaks and the Queensland Floods

This paper examines the rapid and ad hoc development and interactions of participative citizen communities during acute events, using the examples of the 2011 floods in Queensland, Australia, and the global controversy surrounding Wikileaks and its spokesman, Julian Assange. The self-organising comm...

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Main Author: Axel Bruns
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Danube-University Krems 2012-12-01
Series:JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy & Open Government
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Online Access:https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/article/view/135