Radical transparency and digital democracy: Wik. Heemsbergen, Heemsbergen,**

Emerald Publishing Limited

Radical transparency and digital democracyWikileaks and beyond\nAuthor(s): Luke Heemsbergen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, United Kingdom\nImprint: Emerald Publishing Limited\nISBN-13: 9781800437654, 978-1800437654\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nThis is a story that can only be understood through rethinking how technologies of government, practices of media, and assumptions of democracy interact. By combining literatures of governmentality, media studies, and democracy, this illuminating account offers novel insights and critiques of the transparency ideal through its material-political practice.\n\nCase studies uncover evolving media practices that, regard.