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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 118. Chapters: Julian Assange, Robert W. McChesney, Marshall McLuhan, Bracha L. Ettinger, Camille Paglia, Edward Bernays, Joseph Nechvatal, Fred Forest, Willoughby Sharp, Neil Postman, Guy Debord, Joseph Kosuth, Jack Goody, Nam June Paik, Masahiro Morioka, Paul Levinson, Artmedia, Joe Trippi, Walter J. Ong, Oliver Grau, Sherry Turkle, Mario Costa (philosopher), Edmond Couchot, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Lev Manovich, Maurizio Bolognini, Siegfried Zielinski, David Gauntlett, Henry Flynt, Leo Braudy, Genco Gulan, James W. Carey, Jussi Parikka, Dallas Walker Smythe, Dan Caspi, John David Ebert, Nancy Baym, Kalle Lasn, Sarah Thornton, The Thing (art project), Aleksandr Viktorovich Fyodorov, Dick Higgins, Thomas O'Regan, Tony Schwartz (sound archivist), Carlos Ginzburg, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Armand Mattelart, John Fiske (media scholar), Bernard Miege, Brian Massumi, Edward A. Shanken, Ignacio Ramonet, Rammellzee, Elihu Katz, Sarah Cook (curator), Mercedes Bunz, Pierre Restany, Harley Parker, Ellen Wartella, Donald F. Roberts, Jack Burnham, Gene Youngblood, Jing Wang, Toby Miller, Eugene Thacker, Stuart Ewen, Erin Manning (theorist), Christiane Paul (curator), Jay David Bolter, Shane Tilton, Mark Poster, Midori Suzuki (educator), Char Davies, Margot Lovejoy, Brigitte L. Nacos, Charlie Gere, Arthur Kroker, Lelia Green, Laura Kipnis, Dick Hebdige, Dominic Pettman, David A. Bailey, Byung-Chul Han, David Gunkel, Patti Valkenburg, Martin Rimm, Juliet Schor, Catherine Perret, James Halloran. Excerpt: Julian Paul Assange (; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist. He is best known as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes submissions of secret information, news leaks and classified media from anonymous news sources and whistleblowers. Assange was a hacker as a teenager, then a computer programmer before becoming internationally known for his work with WikiLeaks and making public appearances around the world speaking about freedom of the press, censorship, and investigative journalism. WikiLeaks became internationally well known in 2010 when, with its partners in the news media, it began to publish U.S. military and diplomatic documents. Bradley Manning has since been arrested on suspicion of supplying the cables to WikiLeaks. U.S. Air Force documents reportedly state that military personnel who make contact with WikiLeaks or "WikiLeaks supporters" are at risk of being charged with "communicating with the enemy," and the United States Department of Justice reportedly has considered prosecuting Assange for several offenses. During the trial of Manning prosecutors presented evidence that they claim reveals that Manning and Assange collaborated to steal and publish U.S. military and diplomatic documents. Since November 2010, Assange has been subject to a European Arrest Warrant in response to a Swedish police request for questioning in relation to a sexual assault investigation. In June 2012, following final dismissal by the Supreme Court of the UK of his appeal against enforcement of the European Arrest Warrant, Assange has failed to surrender to his bail, and has been treated by the UK authorities as having absconded. Since 19 June 2012, he has been inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has since been granted diplomatic asylum. The British government intends to extradite Assange to Sweden under that arrest warrant once he leaves the embassy, which Assange says he fears may result in his subse"
