Transparency and its Discontents
Type
fundamental research project
Start Date
May 1, 2016
End Date
April 30, 2018
Status
scheduled
Keywords
Transparency
Secrecy
Democracy
Confession
Enlightenment
Surveillance
Open Data
Governance
Subjectivity
Description
More Transparency! In recent years, demands for more transparency have been voiced in domains as diverse as corporate or public administration, financial transactions, scientific research, sports contests, technology or media, turning 'transparency' to a strangely consensual term on which President Obama and whistleblower Edward Snowden, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange paradoxically converge. The research project aims at understanding the reasons why such a notion could become the central concept in an allegedly post-ideological time, and showing how its internal bias may lead to question its supposed neutrality.
Member contributor(s)
Funder
Topic(s)
Critical Transparency
Method(s)
Conceptual and Political Analysis
Range
Institute/School
Range (De)
Institut/School
Division(s)
Eprints ID
245311
Funding code
1024195
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