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Cultures of Transparency: Between Promise and Peril book cover

1st Edition

Cultures of Transparency Between Promise and Peril

Edited By Stefan Berger, Susanne Fengler, Dimitrij Owetschkin, Julia Sittmann Copyright 2021
242 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume addresses the major questions surrounding a concept that has become ubiquitous in the media and in civil society as well as in political and economic discourses in recent years, and which is demanded with increasing frequency: transparency. How can society deal with increasing and often diverging demands and expectations of transparency? What role can different political and civil... Read more

1. Introduction: Transparency and Society

Stefan Berger and Susanne Fengler

Part 1: Transparency as Ethics and Politics

2. Transparency in Public Affairs: The Doctrinal Roots of a Successful Political Metaphor

Sandrine Baume

3. Transparency, the Public Sphere, and the Privatisation of Human Interests

Thomas Docherty

Part 2: Economics and Transparency

4. Varieties of Transparency as Analytical Tool

David Heald

5. Transparency and Economic Development

Jens Forssbaeck

Part 3: Law and Transparency

6. Transparency and its Limits

Padideh Ala’i

7. Political Economy of Judicial Data: Transparency, Openness and Access to Records of War Crimes Prosecutions

Elma Demir

Part 4: Transparency and the Digital World

8. Transparency and the Rise of Populism

Mark Fenster

9. Whistleblowers, Media, and Democracy in Latin America

Rogério Christofoletti

Part 5: Trust and Transparency

10. The Two Faces of Transparency? How Much Transparency is Beneficial? How Much is too Much?

Stefan Hornbostel

11. Does Transparency Endanger Trust?

Michael Hartmann

Part 6: Transparency and Subjectivities

12. Stainless Subjects: Transparency Imaginaries of the Avantgardes

Vincent Kaufmann

13. Anonymity and Transparency: Reconfiguring Cultural Modes of Social Interaction

Nils Zurawski, Michi Knecht and Daniela Silvestrin

14. Transparency, Privacy, and Civil Inattention

Emmanuel Alloa

15. Conclusion

Stefan Berger and Susanne Fengler

Biography

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is the co-editor of Contested Transparencies, Social Movements and the Public Sphere: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective.

Susanne Fengler is Professor of International Journalism and Director of the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism at TU Dortmund University. She is the co-editor of Journalists and Media Accountability, Mapping Media Accountability in Europe and Beyond, and the European Handbook of Media Accountability.

Dimitrij Owetschkin is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is the co-editor of Contested Transparencies, Social Movements and the Public Sphere: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives.

Julia Sittmann is Research Associate at the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, and a writer and editor at Deutsche Welle Akademie, Germany.

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