出版社：School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney
摘要：This article explores Twitter and online forum discussions of WikiLeaks’ November 2009 leak of 9/11 pager messages, placing them in the context of ongoing debates about the meaning of 9/11, about online privacy, and about the presentation of online information. I argue that the real-time online response to this leak was articulated according to five primary interpretive frames: an affective frame characterised by a purely emotional response to the messages; a privacy frame which focused on the legal and moral implications of violating the privacy of pagers users; a history frame which saw the messages primarily as an online historical archive; a data frame which focused on the messages as a data set to be aggregated and visualised; and a conspiracy frame which saw them as potential evidence of a 9/11 cover-up. This polysemic response to the 9/11pager messages, I suggest, stems partly from the way in which 9/11 has been inscribed into cultural memory. At the same time, the response also foreshadows the more recent interpretive conflicts over WikiLeaks’ releases that have led media figures, activists, and scholars to question the effectiveness of the WikiLeaks’ project of provoking reform through the release of classified or suppressed data.
