Radical transparency and digital democracy
Wikileaks and beyond
$121.19
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2025
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800437654 |
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| ISBN-10: | 180043765X |
| Author: | Luke Heemsbergen |
| Publisher: | Emerald Publishing Limited |
| Imprint: | Emerald Publishing Limited |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 359g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
Luke Heemsbergen
Luke Heemsbergen is a Lecturer in Communication at Deakin University, Australia. There, his research and teaching lights fires and builds bridges between digital communication and political life. Luke’s work engages emerging forms of socio-political visibility afforded by digital communication technologies that open new power relations in society, including evolving interfaces of the digital-material world such as 3D printing and augmented reality.
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