Index

Luke Heemsbergen (Deakin University, Australia)

Radical Transparency and Digital Democracy

ISBN: 978-1-80043-763-0, eISBN: 978-1-80043-762-3

Publication date: 4 August 2021

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Heemsbergen, L. (2021), "Index", Radical Transparency and Digital Democracy, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 221-228. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-762-320211010

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INDEX

Abolish secret diplomacy
, 29–30

Accommodation
, 216–217

Adversarial design
, 6–7

Affordance
, 8–9

for governing
, 151–154

in practice
, 62–63

theory
, 62–63

Agonism

democratic theories of
, 53

of resistance
, 194–195

Agonists
, 193

Al Jazeera Investigations (AJI)
, 119, 122

Alipay
, 161

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
, 136

Angell, Norman
, 34

AnonLeaks
, 134–135, 194–195

AnonLeaks. org
, 136, 140, 145–146

Apparatus
, 2, 8–9, 15, 22–23, 46

elements to
, 147–151

Icelandic Constitutional Council as Transparency
, 178–181

Apple–Google

API
, 205

disclosure architecture
, 215–216

Application programming interfaces (APIs)
, 203

Apps
, 203

Arcana imperii in democracy
, 26

Arendt, Hannah
, 48–49, 169–170, 188, 191–192, 198–199, 214–215

Assange, Julian
, 1, 16, 23, 71, 73–75, 77–78, 82–84, 139

Audience
, 107

Autonomist
, 59–61

affordances
, 79–81

democratic politics
, 59

of transparency
, 213–214

Autonomist-Marxists

of digital age
, 53–54

instance
, 60–61

of transparency
, 54

Bahama Leaks (2016)
, 146, 153

Bank of America (BOA)
, 145

Bell Hooks
, 48–49

Big data

analysis
, 63

journalism
, 96

BlackNet
, 74

Bolshevik politics
, 34

Brass Crosby
, 1, 23, 25, 161–162

Brighenti, Andrea
, 11, 17, 47–48, 62, 79, 127, 169–170, 185, 191–192, 195, 198–200

Brin, David
, 47–49

Bureaucratic inertia
, 194

Cabledrum
, 111–112

Cablegate
, 96–97, 99

Cablesearch. org
, 110

Cammaerts, Bart
, 50–51, 213–214

Canonical transparency-governance scholars
, 12

Carceral process
, 1

CBC
, 148

China Cables (2019)
, 146

China Leaks (2014)
, 146, 153

Chronicle
, 4

Citizenfour
, 121

Citizens’ Agenda of OurSay. org
, 170–178

Citizens’ Agenda project in Australia
, 167, 169–170

Classical liberalism
, 46

ClearView AI
, 16, 134, 154, 161, 217–218

Coercive disclosure
, 100–101

Collaborative leaking journalism, designing
, 146–154

Collateral Murder
, 86–87, 91

Collateralmurder.com
, 86, 88

Communication
, 10–11

Communicative capacities
, 12–13

Community engagement
, 169, 172–173

Community-driven actions
, 196–197

Conduct of conduct
, 9–11, 47, 50–51, 55–56, 127–128, 134, 178, 208–209

Conduire des conduites
, 10

Conspiracy as governance
, 73

Constraints of apparatus design
, 15–16

Contractual leaks, designing
, 90–98

Control of/with
, 17, 48–49, 56, 169, 201, 216–217

Corporate actors
, 2

Counterpublic mechanisms of transparency
, 75

COVID apps
, 160, 205–207

COVID-19 pandemic
, 134, 215–216

Creative Commons (CC)
, 117

CrowdLeaks
, 139

Crowdsource
, 26

Cry of Blood
, 82–83

Cryptography
, 21

Cryptome
, 74

Cultures of radical transparency
, 131–132, 154, 161

Dahlberg, Lincoln
, 12–13, 50–51, 53, 59, 78–80, 213–214

DDoS attacks
, 137–138

DDoSecrets.com
, 133–134

Decentering
, 195, 198, 203, 206, 208

Decentralised media technologies
, 1

Decentres technologies of government
, 191–192

Defensive face
, 47

Deformed transparency
, 71–72

Deliberate acts of openness
, 4

Deliberative paradigms
, 62

Deliberative transparency
, 55–56, 213–214

Democracy
, 51, 8–9, 194–195, 216, 219

digital
, 51–53

paradigms
, 50–51

and transparency
, 53

‘DemocracyOS’ application
, 217–218

Democratic affordances of apparatus
, 80

Democratic agency of disclosure
, 4–5

Democratic capacities
, 12–13

Democratic legitimacy
, 6

Democratic paradigms
, 152–153

Democratic practices
, 78–79

of transparency
, 1–2

Democratic theories of agonism
, 53

Democratic transparency
, 12

Design
, 98–101

Digital democracy
, 51–53

Digital disclosure
, 9

Digital leaks sites
, 98–99

Digital media
, 3, 21, 55, 63

second-order affordances
, 63

transparency in
, 213–214

Digital technologies
, 11, 59–60

Digital transformations
, 100–101

Dignities
, 197–198

Disclosure
, 191

Disruption
, 216–217

Distributed Denial of Secrets
, 133

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
, 133–134

Dominator model of social organisation
, 48–49

Dutiful citizens
, 51

e-citizenship models
, 51

Editorialising leaks, designing
, 86–90

Epidemiology
, 215–216

‘Epistemic shift’ of sovereignty
, 101

Equality of tolerance
, 214–215

Equity provisions
, 169–170

Exposure Notifications
, 159–160

Facebook
, 132–133

False information
, 100

Federal Security Service (FSB)
, 99

Feminist partnership model
, 198–199

Feminist theory
, 198–199

FinCEN Files
, 146

‘First generation’ transparency
, 54–55

Flyverbom, Mikkel
, 10–11, 13, 47, 50, 63–64, 176–177

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
, 59–60

Free-speech ISP in Australia
, 73–74

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
, 2, 25

Freedom of information/access laws
, 2

Full and destructive revolution
, 61

Fung, Archon
, 4, 12, 47, 54–56, 89, 102, 150, 198–199, 206

Geolocation Information Systems
, 7

Gitmo Files
, 98–99

Global economic liberalisation
, 6

Global Intelligence Files
, 98–99

Global positioning system (GPS)
, 203

GlobaLeaks
, 217–218

Google-Apple API
, 159–160

Governance by leaking
, 73–74

Government centralising sites
, 121

Governmentality
, 22–23, 72, 107

Greenpeace
, 124

Grid-group dimensions
, 49

Griggs et al.
, 4–5, 15, 17, 22–23, 46, 80, 127, 195, 199, 214–215

Guardian, The
, 96

Hacker-based transparency
, 191

Hacking to leak
, 136–146

Hansard, Luke
, 1–2, 4–5, 22–23, 25–26, 35, 40, 206, 215–216

HBGary
, 141–142

Health Code
, 161

The Herald
, 34, 36

Horizontal transparency
, 48–49

Hydrants
, 58

Hyle
, 10, 46, 64

Icelandic Constitutional Council (CC)
, 178, 183, 196–197, 217–218

material transparency practice of governing
, 181–183

as transparency apparatus
, 178–181

Icelandic National Broadcasting Service
, 83–84

Icesave Landsbanki bank
, 83–84

Implant Files (2018)
, 146

Information asymmetries
, 173

Information Communication Technologies (ICTs)
, 5, 57, 64

(In)forming publics with transparency

clearview AI
, 154–161

hacking to leak or leaking to hack
, 136–146

ICIJ
, 146–154

leaks proto-institution apparatuses
, 135

public health and other cultures of radical transparency
, 154–161

qurious twist to anonymous disclosure
, 154–161

Insider transparency
, 4–5

Institutional governance
, 195

Intellectual property rights
, 24

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
, 16, 131–132, 146, 150, 154, 191, 194–195, 217

affordances for governing
, 151–154

elements to apparatus
, 147–151

International Medical Device Database
, 153

Internet
, 21

Internet-enabled digital disclosure mechanisms
, 25

Involuntary transparency
, 4

Justice Mapping Center
, 7

Kenyan National Commission of Human Rights (KNCHR)
, 82–83

Kill Secrets
, 3

Kingara, Oscar Kamau
, 82–83

Kissinger Cables
, 99

Kroll Report
, 82–83

Leadnow. ca’s (re)generation Campaign
, 183–188

material transparency as technologies of government
, 186–188

transparency apparatus
, 183–184

League of Nations
, 39

Leaking to hack
, 136–146

Leaks-as-a-service
, 123, 126, 217–218

Lenin
, 2, 29–30, 33, 40, 61, 195–196

Liberal

individualist of transparency
, 75

paradigm
, 53–55, 62, 152–153

transparency
, 213–214

Liberalism
, 27

Lippman, Walter
, 10–11, 32, 46–47, 50–51, 200

LiveLeak
, 59

LOIC
, 138

London Evening Post
, 25

Lulz
, 143, 145–146

Luxembourg Leaks (2014)
, 146

Managing visibility
, 13–14, 17, 60, 113–114, 182, 213–214

Manchester Guardian
, 35

Marxist
, 61

democracy paradigms
, 22–23

design of transparency
, 213–214

paradigms
, 62

Material histories of radical transparency

history of radical transparency
, 41

radical markets of liberal transparency offering ‘revelation to regulation’
, 23–28

radical transparency as material rationalisation and reform
, 34–39

Soviet Russia, radical revulsion transparently revolutionises
, 28–33

Material rationalisation, radical transparency as
, 34–39

Material transparency practice of governing
, 181–183

Material-political practice
, 13

Materiality of transparency practice
, 15

Media. See also Digital media
, 12–13

materialise transparency practices
, 62–65

rights vis-a-vis democratic theory
, 50–51

Mediation
, 3

of information
, 12

Military Grid Reference System
, 91

Million Dollar Blocks project
, 6–7

Mimics
, 118

Monthly Active Users (MAUs)
, 158–159

Morphe
, 10, 46, 64

Multiplicity
, 126–127

Nascent capitalism
, 24

National security
, 218

Neo(liberal) of transparency
, 213–214

Networked cryptography
, 3

Neutral transmitters of content
, 12

New digital disclosure apparatuses
, 215–216

News media
, 172–173

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
, 124

Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)
, 203

Offshore Leaks (2013)
, 153

Open diplomacy
, 4–5, 29, 31–32, 196–197

reforms
, 22

Open governance of diplomacy
, 33

Open utopia of technophilic law
, 57

Openness
, 58–59

Operation Avenge Assange
, 137–138

Operation Leakspin
, 138

Operation Payback
, 137–138

Organisational-communication transparency scholarship
, 13

OurSay

model
, 173

process of transparency
, 196–197

‘OurSay. org, Citizens’ Agenda of
, 170–178

OurSay Winning Questions
, 175–176

OurSay’s materialisation of governing through transparency
, 177–178

Pamphleteers
, 1–2

Panama Papers (2015)
, 153

Pandemics
, 215–216

Panoptic control
, 201–202

Paradise Leaks (2017)
, 146, 153

Paris Peace Conference
, 32

Participatory democracy
, 169

Pathogens
, 215–216

Pirate sphere
, 24

Pizzagate conspiracy
, 155

Pluralism
, 194–195

functioning in democracy
, 45

‘Pluralist’ typology
, 194–195

Plurality
, 126–127

Policing
, 194–195

Political
, 25–26

design
, 6–7

irreducibility
, 47

paradigms of transparency
, 53

potentialities
, 214–215

science street
, 12

transparency typology
, 53

Political dimension
, 3

of radical transparency
, 6

Politics
, 6–7, 194–195

Position
, 3

Post-foundational democratic agonism
, 191–192

Post-foundational democratic theory
, 15, 45, 191–192

Post-foundational framework
, 216–217

Potentially Alarming Research: Anonymous Intelligence Agency (Par:AnoIA)
, 134, 143–146

Power

over
, 48–49

with
, 48–49

assumptions of
, 214–215

of control
, 198–202

of control with
, 198–202

Practices of freedom
, 195, 214–215

Practices of governance
, 195

Pre-WikiLeaks
, 108–109

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
, 119

Printer's case
, 25–27

Privacy
, 159–160

Private informational capital
, 60

Productive ambiguity
, 193

Project KTM: Consolidated Report
, 82–83

Propaganda counteroffensive
, 31–32

Propertied minority
, 29–30

Proto-institutions
, 13, 62, 134, 136, 214–215

of decentralised journalism
, 151

Proximity
, 159–160

Public diplomacy
, 31, 83

paradigm of WikiLeaks
, 85

Public health
, 154–161

Public secrets
, 131–132

Public-propagandising leaks, designing
, 81–86

Publicly available information (PAI)
, 157–158

QAnon
, 131–132, 155

Quantitative patterns of votes
, 174

Quasi-conspiratorial PAI resources
, 158–159

Qurious twist to anonymous disclosure
, 154–161

Radical actions
, 191

Radical blocks
, 114

Radical disclosure
, 167–169

Radical markets of liberal transparency
, 23–28

Radical roots and inchoate demands
, 192–198

radical practices and visibilities
, 197

visibility, control and government
, 196

Radical transparency. See also Transparency
, 1, 3, 8, 13, 17, 21–22, 72, 191–194, 213, 215

Citizens’ Agenda of OurSay. org
, 170–178

cultures of
, 131–132

Icelandic Constitutional Council
, 178–183

inverted radical transparency apparatuses
, 167–168

Leadnow. ca’s (re)generation Campaign
, 183–188

as material rationalisation and reform
, 34–39

matters to democracy
, 8–14

of open source software
, 59–60

Rationalisation to reform
, 35–37

Rationalities
, 39, 46, 213

Recenters technologies of government
, 191–192

Regimes of practice
, 46

Respondent post-foundational democratic theory
, 22–23

Responsive agonism
, 194

Revelation to regulation
, 23–28

Revolution by revulsion
, 33

Revolutionary-democratic culture
, 29–30

Rhizome
, 107

Robo-debt
, 205

Schudson
, 120–121, 169–170, 174, 184

Second-generation transparency
, 55

Second-order analysis
, 214–215

Secret Treaties
, 28, 35

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
, 119

SecureDrop
, 124, 217

Self-actualising citizens
, 51

Sifry, Micah
, 3, 12, 48–49, 57, 75, 199

Snowden effect
, 125–126

Social network analysis (SNA)
, 114, 149

Social–technological contexts
, 22

Socio-material reality of people
, 62–63

Socio-political–technological contexts
, 24

Socio-technical media apparatuses
, 10

Socio-technological account of transparency
, 10–11

Socio-technological apparatuses
, 1–2, 45

Soviet Russia

leaks design
, 98–101

radical revulsion transparently revolutionises
, 28–33

Spatial Information Design Lab
, 7

Spring-breakers
, 158–159

Spy Files
, 98–99

Strategic communication
, 82

Surveillance
, 4–5, 47–48, 115–116, 157–158

Swiss Leaks (2015)
, 146, 153

Sykes–Picot correspondence
, 30–31

Syria Files
, 98–99

Systematic accounting of leaks sites

centralise leaks
, 118–123

intersite relations
, 113–117

leaks as a service
, 123–126

mimics
, 118

social network of leaks sites
, 116

themes
, 117–126

Tax-averse actors
, 151

Techno-collective mentality
, 57–58

Techno-idealism
, 12–13

Techno-realism
, 12–13

Technologies

government
, 2, 8–9, 23, 39, 46

Leadnow’s material transparency as
, 186–188

street
, 12

Techo-collective
, 57–59

Tectonix
, 157–159

Telekommunist Manifesto
, 59–60

The Internet Archive (TIA)
, 114–115

Þetta reddast!
, 167

power of
, 178–183

3D printing
, 59–60

Track-and-trace approaches
, 16

Tragic process
, 46

Transparency
, 6–9, 11, 13, 21–23, 27, 45, 47, 50, 58–59, 167, 169, 213

apparatus
, 149, 215

autonomist
, 59–61

deliberative
, 55–56

democratic practices of
, 1–2

in digital media
, 213–214

discrete and conceptually independent paradigms
, 61–62

hues
, 54

information
, 5

international
, 4

liberal
, 54–55

Marxist
, 61

materialises
, 22

media materialise transparency practices
, 62–65

mediated, autonomist and techno-collaborative turns
, 56–61

multiple politics of
, 47–48

OurSay’s materialisation of governing through
, 177–178

political capacity
, 7–8

power of
, 2

prism of transparency makes practice of political visible
, 46–62

regimes
, 45

techo-collective
, 57–59

transparency in(forms) government theory and practice
, 9–14

transparency-governance scholars
, 57

typology
, 53–56

Triangulation
, 97

Uniform resource locator (URL)
, 107

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
, 4

Utmost severity
, 24

Venture communism
, 60–61

Visibilities of control
, 11, 47, 157, 206

Visibilities of recognition
, 11, 56, 214–216

Voluntary disclosures
, 4

War logs
, 91, 96, 150–151

WeChat
, 161

West Africa Leaks (2018)
, 146

WikiLeaks
, 3, 21, 71, 107, 132, 193, 217

after
, 107–109

autonomist affordances
, 79–81

birth, multiplicity and death for leaks sites
, 126–128

decentralised communication networks
, 8–9

designing
, 75–81

designing contractual leaks
, 90–98

designing editorialising leaks
, 86–90

designing public-propagandising leaks
, 81–86

First Derivatives
, 109–113

model
, 16, 98, 107

phases
, 76

portals
, 77

pre-WikiLeaks
, 108–109

Soviet Russia, leaks design
, 98–101

systematic accounting of leaks sites and intersite relations
, 113–117

systematic accounting of leaks sites’ themes
, 117–126

tracking digital design multiplicity
, 109–113

war logs
, 92–94

Wiki, Ergo, Leaks
, 73–75

WikiLeaks-cum-public diplomacy apparatus
, 84

Wilson, Woodrow
, 22, 29, 31–33, 37–38, 55–56

WorldStar
, 59

x-mode
, 157–159

YouTube
, 59

Zimmerman telegram
, 31