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Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Knowledge Curation This is a repository copy of Obfuscated democracy? Chelsea Manning and the politics of knowledge curation. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/138950/ Version: Accepted Version Article: Garnett, Philip orcid.org/0000-0001-6651-0220 and Hughes, Sarah M. (2019) Obfuscated democracy? Chelsea Manning and the politics of knowledge curation. Political Geography. 23 - 33. ISSN 0962-6298 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.11.001 Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item. Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing [email protected] including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. [email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Obfuscated democracy? Chelsea Manning and the politics of knowledge curation - Supplementary Data Supplementary Table 1: Systematic Journal Search Table Construction The search period for the database was from the 28th of November 2010 and until the 31st July 2018. This search produced 263 academic papers and books (including a few other items) that matched the terms; Wikileaks, Manning, US Cables, Cablegate. Papers and books had undergone peer review were retained, and their status as either International Relations or Political Geography journals recorded. Out of the 263 items found: • 155 were accessible peer reviewed articles o From this, 15 were published in a Political Geography or International Relations journal. • 14 papers made significant reference to the cable leaks and used leaked materials in the article. • 34 engaged with the leaked cables but did not refer specifically to a leaked document or reproduce any part of a document or data. • 28 engaged with the Chelsea Manning’s case. A small number of articles, and international articles, and some book chapters were not accessible to us. Book reviews, comments, and media articles are in the table but not counted. Key to the Table The table contains the results of a search for papers engaging with Wikileaks and more specifically the cable leaks. Cables: indicates whether the paper makes significant mention of the US cable leaks. Manning: indicates with the paper makes significant mention of Private Manning. No' in either of these columns indicates no mention of either the cables or Manning, and therefore would indicate that the paper only engages with Wikileaks (and then not in any depth). 'Mentioned' would indicate that either the cables or Manning are mentioned but there is no significant engagement with the issues around either (for example, they are mentioned as part of contextual information). 'Yes' would indicate that the cables or Manning are significant to the paper's argument. 'Significant' indicates that there is more extensive engagement with either the Manning case or Cables material, often referring directly to documents or reproducing documents/data. IR: indicates either Political Science and International Relations journals. Geog: journal could be classified as in the Geography domain. The papers are divided into sub-tables of different categories, some papers will appear in more than table. Some of the papers were excluded and these are separated into table 2, the reason is noted in the final column. Table 1a – Papers that make extensive use of the cables or extensive reference to the Manning case. Reference Cables Manning IR Geog Notes Allan, S., and K. Anden-Papadopoulos. 2010. “‘Come On, Let Us Shoot!’: WikiLeaks and the Cultures of Militarization.” TOPIA-CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES, no. 23-24. 244–53. Significant No No No Benkler, Y. SUM 2011. “A Free Irresponsible Press: Wikileaks and the Battle over the Soul of the Networked Fourth Estate.” Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 46 (2). 311–97. Significant Yes No No Bicakci, S., D. Rende, S. Rende, and O. T. Yildiz. 2014. “WikiLeaks on the Middle East: Obscure Diplomacy Networks and Binding Spaces.” JOURNAL OF BALKAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 16 (4). 459– 73. Significant No No No Dawisha, Karen. 2011. “Is Russia’s Foreign Policy That of a Corporatist-Kleptocratic Regime?” Post-Soviet Affairs 27 (4): 331–65. Significant No Yes No Frampton, M., and E. Rosen. 2013. “READING THE RUNES? THE UNITED STATES AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AS SEEN THROUGH THE WIKILEAKS CABLES.” Historical Journal: 56 (3). 827– 56. Significant No No No Linke, Andrew M., Frank D. W. Witmer, and John O’Loughlin. 2012. “Space-Time Granger Analysis of the War in Iraq: A Study of Coalition and Insurgent Action- War Reaction.” International Interactions 38 (4): 402–25. Significant No Yes No Logs Lynch, Lisa. 2013. “Cablegate in the Congo: Mapping the Digital Trail of Wikileaks Cables about the ‘Forgotten’ DRC.” Radical History Review 2013 (117). 49–69. Significant No No No Mabon, S. 2013. “Aiding Revolution? Wikileaks, Communication and the ‘Arab Spring’ in Egypt.” Third World Quarterly 34 (10). 1843–57. Significant Yes No No Michael, G. J. 2015. “Who’s Afraid of WikiLeaks? Missed Opportunities in Political Science Research.” The Review of Policy Research 32 (2). 175–99. Significant No No No O’Loughlin, John, Frank D. W. Witmer, Andrew M. Linke, and Nancy Thorwardson. 2010. “Peering into the Fog oF War: The Geography oF the WikiLeaks Afghanistan War Logs, 2004-2009.” Eurasian War Geography and Economics 51 (4): 472–95. Significant No No Yes Logs Pegg, Scott, and Eiki Berg. 2016. “Lost and Found: The WikiLeaks oF De Facto State–Great Power Relations.” International Studies Perspectives 17 (3): 267–86. Significant Mentioned No No Tidy, Joanna. 2017. “Visual Regimes and the Politics oF War Experience: Rewriting War ‘From Above’ in WikiLeaks’ ‘Collateral Murder.’” Review oF International Studies 43 (01): 95–111. Significant Yes Yes No Vucetic, Srdjan, and Rebecka S. Rydberg. 2015. “Remnants of Empire: Tracing Norway’s F-35 Decision.” Contemporary Security Policy 36 (1): 56–78. Significant Mentioned No No Zammit-Mangion, Andrew, Michael Dewar, Visakan Kadirkamanathan, and Guido Sanguinetti. 2012. “Point Process Modelling oF the Afghan War Diary.” Proceedings oF the National Academy oF Sciences oF Data the United States of America 109 (31): 12414–19. Significant No No No Analysis Table 1b – Papers where the cables are significant to the paper’s argument. Reference Cables Manning IR Geog Notes Balkin, J. M. 2013. “Old-School/new-School Speech Regulation.” Harvard Law Review 127 (8): 2296–2342. Yes Mentioned No No Balzacq, Thierry, and Benjamin Puybareau. 2018. “The Economy oF Secrecy: Security, InFormation Control, and EU‒US Relations.” West European Politics 41 (4): 890–913. Yes No No No Bellia, P. L. 2012. “WikiLeaks and the Institutional Framework for National Security Disclosures.” The Yale Law Journal 121 (6). 1448–1526. Yes Yes No No Berghel, H. 2012. “WikiLeaks and the Matter of Private Manning.” Computer 45 (3). 70–73. Yes Yes No No Media Beyer, J. L. 2014. “The Emergence of a Freedom of Information Movement: Anonymous, WikiLeaks, the Pirate Party, and Iceland.” Journal of Computer- Mediated Communication: JCMC 19 (2). 141–54. Yes Mentioned No No Boothroyd, D. 2011. “Off the Record Levinas, Derrida and the Secret of Responsibility.” THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY 28 (7-8). 41–59. Yes Yes No No Brevini, Benedetta. 2017. “WikiLeaks: Between Disclosure and Whistle-Blowing in Digital Times.” Sociology Compass 11 (3): e12457. Yes Yes No No Burgess, Edwin B. 2012. “Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure oF OFFicial Secrets in American History.” Libr. J. REED BUSINESS INFORMATION 360 PARK AVENUE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010 USA. Yes Yes No No Book Cammaerts, B. 2013. “Networked Resistance: The Case of WikiLeaks.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication: JCMC 18 (4). 420–36. Yes Mentioned No No Coddington, M. 2012. “Defending a Paradigm by Patrolling a Boundary: Two Global Newspapers’ Approach to WikiLeaks.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 89 (3). 377–96. Yes No No No Cseke, Botond, Andrew Zammit-Mangion, Tom Heskes, and Guido Sanguinetti. 2016. “Sparse Approximate InFerence For Spatio-Temporal Point Process Models.” Journal oF the American Statistical Association 111 (516): 1746–63. Yes No No No Earl, Jennifer, and Jessica L. Beyer. 2014. “The Dynamics of Backlash Online: Anonymous and the Battle for WikiLeaks.” In Intersectionality and Social Change, edited by L. M. Woehrle, 37:207–33. Yes Yes No No Fenster, M. 2012. “Disclosure’s Effects: WikiLeaks and Transparency.” Iowa Law Review 97 (3). 753–807. Yes Yes No No Freedman, J. WIN 2012. “PROTECTING STATE SECRETS AS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A STRATEGY FOR PROSECUTING WIKILEAKS.” Stanford Journal of International Law 48 (1). 185–208. Yes Yes No No Gill, M., and A. Spirling. SPR 2015. “Estimating the Severity of the WikiLeaks US Diplomatic Cables Disclosure.” Political Analysis: An Annual Publication Yes Yes No No of the Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association 23 (2). 299–305. Gubrud, Mark A. 2011. “Chinese and US Kinetic Energy Space Weapons and Arms Control.” Asian Perspective 35 (4): 617–41. Yes No No No Handley, R. L. 2014. “CROSS- AND EXTRA- NATIONAL JOURNALISTIC PARTNERSHIPS And the National Outlook.” JOURNALISM STUDIES 15 (2). 138–53. Yes No No No Handley, R. L., and A. Ismail. 2013. “A Watchdog to Reckon with: Delivering WikiLeaks in the Israeli and Australian Press.” JOURNALISM 14 (5). 643–60. Yes No No No Handley, R. L., and L. Rutigliano. 2012. “Journalistic Field Wars: Defending and Attacking the National Narrative in a Diversifying Journalistic Field.” Media Culture & Society 34 (6).
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