Military whistleblowing is one of the most difficult ways to expose wrongdoing and inform the public of unknown facts that need to be revealed. It is an act based on ethics, honesty and accountability that stands up to abuse, oppression and exploitation. Whistleblowers are people who want to change systems for the better, but who often face retaliation and persecution. Inspired by the courageous acts of female military whistleblowers and truth-tellers in bringing war crimes, misconduct and social injustice to public attention, Tatiana Bazzichelli’s presentation will focus on the importance of building networks of trust in the context of national security whistleblowing. She will discuss the impact of the work of Chelsea Manning, Lisa Ling and Reality Winner (among others) and relate it to the effects of truth-telling in an often male-dominated field such as the military. Their stories will be linked to other powerful activities in the field of warfare developed by women in the arts, media and journalism who are working to denounce war crimes.
Tatiana Bazzichelli
Founder & Director, Disruption Network Lab
Tatiana Bazzichelli is the founder and director of Disruption Network Lab, a Berlin-based nonprofit organisation that exposes the misconduct and wrongdoing of the powerful, and of the Disruption Network Institute, a hub of investigations on the impacts of data-driven technologies on warfare. Her focus of work is whistleblowing and digital culture. She is the author of the books Whistleblowing for Change (2021), Networked Disruption (2013), Disrupting Business (2013), and Networking (2006). In 2011-2014 she was programme curator at transmediale festival in Berlin. She received a PhD degree in Information and Media Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Aarhus University in Denmark in 2011. Her PhD research, Networked Disruption, was the result of her 2009 visiting scholarship at the H-STAR Institute of Stanford University. In 2012-2014 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg.
The DDD event series is organized and sponsored by the JCU Department of Communication and Media Studies.
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