Edited by Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy

• Contents:1 Digital media and technologies in grassroots strugglesagainst corruption 1Alice MattoniPART I CONTEXTS2 From concerned citizens to civic bots: The bottom-upfight against corruption in Brazil from a longitudinal perspective 26Fernanda Odilla3 Anti-corruption and transparency in civil societyorganisations in Uruguay: the challenges of fostering anagenda when the attention is elsewhere 54Germán Bidegain4 Anti-corruption ‘from below’ and digital media duringregime change. A comparative analysis of two NorthAfrican countries 76Ester SigillòPART II PLATFORMS5 Potentialities and affordances of grassroots civic techplatforms as effective anti-corruption tools: Decoding thestory of I Paid A Bribe, India 98Anwesha Chakraborty6 The social construction of anti-corruption technologies:Analysing the e-participation platform rahvaalgatus.ee in Estonia 119Oksana Huss7 Digital whistleblowing platforms for anti-corruption: TheTransparency International Italia case 141Philip Di Salvo8 Digital technology, citizens’ engagement, and electoralcorruption in Colombia 162Manoel GehrkePART III DATA9 Data practices and informative activism in the grassrootsstruggles against corruption 183Alice Fubini10 Involving citizens through multi-platform strategies:Transparency Watch in North Macedonia 207Dale Mineshima-Lowe11 Artificial intelligence as a weapon to fight corruption:Civil society actors on the benefits and risks of existingbottom-up approaches 231Julia Forjan, Nils Köbis, Christopher StarkePART IV CONCLUSION12 The challenges of anti-corruption technologies from thegrassroots 253Alice Mattoni

‘Mattoni’s work is crucial for understanding the complexities of grassroots movements in the digital era and provides a roadmap for future endeavours in the fight against corruption worldwide. This publication is an open-access title and is free to read, download, and share on the Edward Elgar Publishing website under the political science and public policy subject collection. The publication will be useful for students and scholars of corruption studies, digital sociology, law and politics, public policy, regulation and governance, and the study of social movements. It will also benefit anti-corruption practitioners and policymakers interested in the work of CSOs at the grassroots level.’