Cardoso, Gustavo; Jacobetty, Pedro. Surfing the Crisis: Cultures of Belonging and Networked Social Change. Castells, Manuel; Caraça, João; Cardoso, Gustavo (編). Aftermath: The Cultures of the Economic Crisis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012: 177–209. ISBN 9780199658411. WikiLeaks is also based on an openness culture, as it is a crowd-sourced, crowd-funded non-profit organization operating internationally.
Braccini, Alessio Maria; Federici, Tommaso. New Internet-Based Relationships Between Citizens. Baskerville, Richard; De Marco, Marco; Spagnoletti, Paolo (編). Designing Organizational Systems: An Interdisciplinary Discourse. Berlin: Springer Nature. 2013: 157–179. ISBN 978-3-642-33370-5. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33371-2. Julian Assange had introduced a new term into the lexicon of several generations. This term was 'WikiLeaks' and described an international non-profit organisation, committed to publishing secret information, news leaks, and classified media provided by anonymous sources. （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）
Hindman, Elizabeth Blanks; Thomas, Ryan J. When Old and New Media Collide: The Case of WikiLeaks. New Media & Society (SAGE Publishing). June 2014, 16 (4): 541–558. S2CID 30711318. doi:10.1177/1461444813489504. WikiLeaks was founded in 2006 as an international non-profit organization specializing in the publication of 'classified, censored or otherwise restricted material of political, diplomatic or ethical significance' obtained via anonymous sources
Dodds, Klaus J. The WikiLeaks Arctic Cables. Polar Record (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 2012, 48 (2): 199–201. Bibcode:2012PoRec..48..199D. S2CID 129682201. doi:10.1017/S003224741100043X. With a keen sense of timing, given the Greenlandic and Danish governments' hosting of the 7th Arctic Council ministerial meeting, seven 'sensitive' US diplomatic cables were leaked by WikiLeaks, an international non-profit organisation that publishes materials from anonymous sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers
Benkler, Yochai. A Free Irresponsible Press: Wikileaks and the Battle over the Soul of the Networked Fourth Estate. Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review (Cambridge: Harvard Law School). 2011, 46 (2): 311–397 –透過Harvard Library. Wikileaks is a nonprofit that depends on donations from around the world to fund its operation. A second system that came under attack on a model parallel to the attack on technical infrastructure was the payment system... Like the Sunlight Foundation and similar transparency-focused organizations, Wikileaks is a nonprofit focused on bringing to light direct, documentary evidence about government behavior so that many others, professional and otherwise, can analyze the evidence and search for instances that justify public criticism. （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）
Fuchs, Christian. WikiLeaks: Can We Make Power Transparent?. Social Media: A Critical Introduction. London/Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publishing. 2014: 210–233. ISBN 978-1-4462-5730-2. WikiLeaks (www.wikileaks.org) is a non-commercial and non-profit Internet whistleblowing platform that has been online since 2006. Julian Assange founded it. It is funded by online donations. （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）
Beckett, Charlie. Wikileaks: News in the Networked Era. Cambridge: Wiley. 2012: 26. ISBN 978-0-745-65975-6. WikiLeaks is independent of commercial, corporate, government or lobbygroup control or ownership. It is a non-membership, non-profit organisation funded by donations
Flesher Fominaya, Cristina. Social Movements in a Globalized World Second. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2020: 177. ISBN 9781352009347. As a non-profit organization, Wikileaks is funded by crowdfunding donations, which were subsequently blocked by PayPal, Mastercard, a Swiss Bank and Bank of America in protest over their political acitivity, a troubling example of 'the ability of private infrastructure companies to restrict speech without being bound by the contraints of legality, and the possibility that government actors will take advantage of this affordance in an extra-legal public-private partnership for censorship'. （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）
Daly, Angela. The Privatization of the Internet, WikiLeaks and Free Expression. International Journal of Communication (Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Press). 2014, 8: 2693–2703. SSRN 2496707 –透過European University Institute. In late 2010, the online nonprofit media organization WikiLeaks published classified documents detailing correspondence between the U.S. State Department and its diplomatic missions around the world, numbering around 250,000 cables. （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）
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