Cultures of Transparency

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.

• Cultures of Transparency in a Changing World – an Introduction Dimitrij Owetschkin, Julia Sittmann, Stefan Berger Part I: Transparency and Public Policy - Historical and Methodological Perspectives Transparency in Public Affairs: The Rise of a Successful Political Metaphor Sandrine Baume Transparency and Economic Development Jens Forssbaeck Part II: Transparency in the Digital Age Bullets of Truth: Julian Assange and the Politics of Transparency Mark Fenster Whistleblowers, Media, and Democracy in Latin America Rogério Christofoletti Blind Spots: Shedding Light on Media Transparency Research Across the World Susanne Fengler, Dominik Speck, Mariella Bastian and Judith Pies Part III: The Limits of Informational Openness Does Transparency Endanger Trust? Reflections on a Delicate Relationship Martin Hartmann Can Transparency be a Sin? On the Advantages and Obstacles of the New Silver Bullet in Academic Research Stefan Hornbostel The Limits of Transparency: China, the United States and the World Trade OrganizationPadideh Ala’i & Katayoon Beshkardana Part IV: Transparency and the Individual - The "End of Privacy" Transparency and Privatisation Thomas Docherty Transparency, Privacy, and Civil Inattention Emmanuel Alloa Part V: Towards a "Transparent Society"? Stainless Subjects: Transparency Imaginaries of the Avantgardes Vincent Kaufman The Idea of the Public Sphere and Social Movements as Agents of Transparency: Historical Perspectives Stefan Berger and Dimitrij Owetschkin