The Transparency Fix

Author : Mark Fenster
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781503602670

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The Transparency Fix by Mark Fenster Pdf

Is the government too secret or not secret enough? Why is there simultaneously too much government secrecy and a seemingly endless procession of government leaks? The Transparency Fix asserts that we incorrectly assume that government information can be controlled. The same impulse that drives transparency movements also drives secrecy advocates. They all hold the mistaken belief that government information can either be released or kept secure on command. The Transparency Fix argues for a reformation in our assumptions about secrecy and transparency. The world did not end because Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and Edward Snowden released classified information. But nor was there a significant political change. "Transparency" has become a buzzword, while secrecy is anathema. Using a variety of real-life examples to examine how government information actually flows, Mark Fenster describes how the legal regime's tenuous control over state information belies both the promise and peril of transparency. He challenges us to confront the implausibility of controlling government information and shows us how the contemporary obsession surrounding transparency and secrecy cannot radically change a state that is defined by so much more than information.

Author : Ida Koivisto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192667908

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The Transparency Paradox by Ida Koivisto Pdf

Transparency has become a new norm. States, international organizations, and even private businesses have sought to bolster their legitimacy by invoking transparency in their activities. This growth in popularity was made possible through two interconnected trends: the idea that transparency is inherently good, and that the actual meaning of the term is becoming harder and harder to pin down. Thus far, this has remained undertheorized. The Transparency Paradox is an insightful account of the hidden logic of the ideal of transparency and its legal manifestations. It shows how transparency is a covertly conflicted ideal. The book argues that counter to popular understanding, truth and legitimacy cannot but form a problematic trade-off in transparency practices.

Author : Dorota Mokrosinska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429649431

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Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies by Dorota Mokrosinska Pdf

This edited volume offers a critical discussion of the trade-offs between transparency and secrecy in the actual political practice of democratic states in Europe. As such, it answers to a growing need to systematically analyse the problem of secrecy in governance in this political and geographical context. Focusing on topical cases and controversies in particular areas, the contributors reflect on the justification and limits of the use of secrecy in democratic governance, register the social, cultural, and historical factors that inform this process and explore the criteria used by European legislators and policy-makers, both at the national and supranational level, when balancing interests on the sides of transparency and secrecy, respectively. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of security studies, political science, European politics/studies, law, history, political philosophy, public administration, intelligence studies, media and communication studies, and information technology sciences.

Author : Rachel Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000036343

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Transparency by Rachel Adams Pdf

This book critiques the contemporary recourse to transparency in law and policy. This is, ostensibly, the information age. At the heart of the societal shift toward digitalisation is the call for transparency and the liberalisation of information and data. Yet, with the recent rise of concerns such as 'fake news', post-truth and misinformation, where the policy responses to all these phenomena has been a petition for even greater transparency, it becomes imperative to critically reflect on what this dominant idea means, whom it serves, and what the effects are of its power. In response, this book provides the first sustained critique of the concept of transparency in law and policy. It offers a concise overview of transparency in law and policy around the world, and critiques how this concept works discursively to delimit other forms of governance, other ways of knowing and other realities. It draws on the work of Michel Foucault on discourse, archaeology and genealogy, together with later Foucaultian scholars, including Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Judith Butler, as a theoretical framework for challenging and thinking anew the history and understanding of what has become one of the most popular buzzwords of 21st century law and governance. At the intersection of law and governance, this book will be of considerable interest to those working in these fields; but also to those engaged in other interdisciplinary areas, including society and technology, the digital humanities, technology laws and policy, global law and policy, as well as the surveillance society.

Author : Echo Swinford
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596100049

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Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances by Echo Swinford Pdf

A book about programming with Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension for customizing web pages.

Author : Jens Ivo Engels,Frédéric Monier
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847011552

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History of Transparency in Politics and Society by Jens Ivo Engels,Frédéric Monier Pdf

Today, the demand for transparency is omnipresent. In particular, transparency is considered a prerequisite for good governance, for political participation and democracy. On closer inspection, however, transparency proves to be ambivalent. For complete transparency has not yet been achieved anywhere. Moreover, measures to increase transparency can have the opposite effect and stir up mistrust. Historians are just beginning to discover this topic. The volume assembles contributions covering European history since the 19th century. The contributors focus on political and cultural history, but include also economic and media history as well as the history of ideas. They analyse publicly debated demands and efforts for transparency, conceived as the access to information or ist disclosure.

Author : Emmanuel Alloa,Dieter Thomä
Publisher : Springer
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319771618

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Transparency, Society and Subjectivity by Emmanuel Alloa,Dieter Thomä Pdf

This book critically engages with the idea of transparency whose ubiquitous demand stands in stark contrast to its lack of conceptual clarity. The book carefully examines this notion in its own right, traces its emergence in Early Modernity and analyzes its omnipresence in contemporary rhetoric. Today, transparency has become a catchword outplaying other Enlightenment values like empowerment, sincerity and the notion of a public sphere. In a suspicious manner, transparency is entangled in the discourses on power, surveillance, and self-exposure. Bringing together prominent scholars from the emerging field of Critical Transparency Studies, the book offers a map of the various sites at which transparency has become virulent and connects the dots between past and present. By studying its appearances in today’s hyper-mediated economies of information and by linking it back to its historical roots, the book analyzes transparency and its discontents, and scrutinizes the reasons why it has become the imperative of a supposedly post-ideological age.

Author : Stefan Berger,Susanne Fengler,Dimitrij Owetschkin,Julia Sittmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000373547

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Cultures of Transparency by Stefan Berger,Susanne Fengler,Dimitrij Owetschkin,Julia Sittmann Pdf

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 society actors play in processes of producing, or preventing, transparency? Where are the limits of transparency and how are these boundaries negotiated? What is the relationship of transparency to processes of social change, as well as systems of social surveillance and control? Engaging with transparency as an interrelated product of law, politics, economics and culture, this interdisciplinary volume explores the ambiguities and contradictions, as well as the social and political dilemmas, that the age of transparency has unleashed. As such it will appeal to researchers across the social sciences and humanities with interests in politics, history, sociology, civil society, citizenship, public policy, criminology and law.

Author : Jorge I. Valdovinos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030955465

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Transparency and Critical Theory by Jorge I. Valdovinos Pdf

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the critique of contemporary ideology, offering an innovative genealogy of one of its most fundamental discursive manoeuvres: the ideological effacement of mediation. Providing a comprehensive historical revision of media (from the Greeks to the Internet), this book identifies several critical junctures at which the tension between visibility and invisibility has overlapped with conceptions of neutrality—a tension best incarnated in today's use of the word transparency. Then, it traces this term's evolving semantic constellation through a variety of intellectual discourses, exposing it as a key operator in the revaluation of ideals, sensibilities, and modalities of perception that lie at the core of our contemporary attention-based economy.

Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804797511

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The Transparency Society by Byung-Chul Han Pdf

Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Considered crucial to democracy, it touches our political and economic lives as well as our private lives. Anyone can obtain information about anything. Everything—and everyone—has become transparent: unveiled or exposed by the apparatuses that exert a kind of collective control over the post-capitalist world. Yet, transparency has a dark side that, ironically, has everything to do with a lack of mystery, shadow, and nuance. Behind the apparent accessibility of knowledge lies the disappearance of privacy, homogenization, and the collapse of trust. The anxiety to accumulate ever more information does not necessarily produce more knowledge or faith. Technology creates the illusion of total containment and the constant monitoring of information, but what we lack is adequate interpretation of the information. In this manifesto, Byung-Chul Han denounces transparency as a false ideal, the strongest and most pernicious of our contemporary mythologies.

Author : Michael Karlsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000453096

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Transparency and Journalism by Michael Karlsson Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible introduction to journalistic transparency. Pulling from historical and theoretical perspectives, Transparency and Journalism explains the concept of transparency and its place in journalistic practice, offering a critical assessment of what transparency can and cannot offer to journalism. The author also reviews the key theoretical claims underlying transparency and how they have been researched in different parts of the world, ultimately proposing a communication model that can be used to study the concept of transparency across journalism research. Other topics discussed include the use of algorithmic forms of transparency, the limitations of the transparency myth, and suggestions for future avenues for research. Transparency and Journalism is an important resource for students and scholars in the field of journalism and media studies, as well as for journalists and researchers interested in delving into an ever-relevant topic for the field.

Author : Maarten Hillebrandt,Päivi Leino-Sandberg,Ida Koivisto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003832232

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(In)visible European Government by Maarten Hillebrandt,Päivi Leino-Sandberg,Ida Koivisto Pdf

This book questions the theoretical premises and practical applications of transparency, showing both the promises and perils of transparency in a methodologically innovative way and in a cross-section of policy instruments. It scrutinizes transparency from three perspectives - methodologically, theoretically, and empirically - both in the specific context of the EU but also in the wider context of modern society in which transparency is embraced as an almost unquestionable virtue. This book examines the ways in which transparency practices can make institutions visible and stands out for its methodological self-reflection: to fully understand the irresistible call for transparency in our governing institutions, we must reflect on our own relationship with it. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of transparency studies, democratic legitimacy, global governance, governance law, EU studies and law and public policy more widely.

Author : Arco Timmermans
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781803920283

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Research Handbook on Public Affairs by Arco Timmermans Pdf

In this innovative Handbook, Arco Timmermans brings together a diverse range of experts to scrutinise the current field of public affairs, what can be learned from it and its compatibility with democracy and open society. Through this multidisciplinary focus on knowledge and competencies, the Handbook aims to closely connect the spheres of research and practice within public affairs.

Author : One who knows
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Photography
ISBN : PRNC:32101045231410

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A Photograph and how to Take it by One who knows Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Patents
ISBN : UCAL:B3140684

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The Repertory of Patent Inventions by Anonim Pdf