Radical transparency and digital democracy : Wikileaks and beyond

This book tells the story of radical transparency in a datafied world. It is a story that not only includes the beginnings of WikiLeaks and its endings as a weapon of the GRU, but also exposes numerous other decentralised disclosure networks designed to crack open democracy - for good or ill - that...

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Main Author: Heemsbergen, Luke, (Author)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Subjects:
Communication policy.
Information policy.
Social Science > Media Studies.
Communication studies.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781800437647
Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)

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245 1 0 |a Radical transparency and digital democracy :  |b Wikileaks and beyond /  |c Luke Heemsbergen (Deakin University, Australia). 
264 1 |a Bingley, U.K. :  |b Emerald Publishing Limited,  |c 2021. 
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500 |a Includes index. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Chapter 1. Material histories of the radical transparency ideal -- Chapter 2. mediating transparency / governing with visibility -- Chapter 3. WikiLeaks.org - website to weapon -- Chapter 4. "After" WikiLeaks -- Chapter 5. Proto-institutions to open government: (in)forming publics with the transparency we deserve -- Chapter 6. Radical transparency inverted: mass & mutual disclosure -- Chapter 7. Radical transparency, proto-institutional government, and post-foundational politics. 
520 |a This book tells the story of radical transparency in a datafied world. It is a story that not only includes the beginnings of WikiLeaks and its endings as a weapon of the GRU, but also exposes numerous other decentralised disclosure networks designed to crack open democracy - for good or ill - that followed in its wake. This is a story that can only be understood through rethinking how technologies of government, practices of media, and assumptions of democracy interact. By combining literatures of governmentality, media studies, and democracy, this illuminating account offers novel insights and critiques of the transparency ideal through its material-political practice. Case studies uncover evolving media practices that, regardless of being scraped from public records or leaked from internal sources, still divulge secrets. The narrative also traces new corporate players such as Clearview AI, the civic-minded ICIJ, and state-based public health disclosures in times of pandemic to reveal how they all form unique proto-institutional instances of disclosure as a technology of government. The analysis of novel forms of digital radical transparency - from a trickle of paper-based leaks to the modern digital .torrent - is grounded in analogues from the analogue past, which combine to tell the whole story of how transparency functions in and helps form democracy. 
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