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Author |
: David Brin |
Publisher |
: Perseus (for Hbg) |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 1999-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780738201443 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0738201448 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Transparent Society by : David Brin
Argues that the privacy of individuals actually hampers accountability, which is the foundation of any civilized society and that openness is far more liberating than secrecy
Author |
: Byung-Chul Han |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 71 |
Release |
: 2015-08-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804797511 |
ISBN-13 |
: 080479751X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Transparency Society by : Byung-Chul Han
Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Considered crucial to democracy, it touches our political and economic lives as well as our private lives. Anyone can obtain information about anything. Everything—and everyone—has become transparent: unveiled or exposed by the apparatuses that exert a kind of collective control over the post-capitalist world. Yet, transparency has a dark side that, ironically, has everything to do with a lack of mystery, shadow, and nuance. Behind the apparent accessibility of knowledge lies the disappearance of privacy, homogenization, and the collapse of trust. The anxiety to accumulate ever more information does not necessarily produce more knowledge or faith. Technology creates the illusion of total containment and the constant monitoring of information, but what we lack is adequate interpretation of the information. In this manifesto, Byung-Chul Han denounces transparency as a false ideal, the strongest and most pernicious of our contemporary mythologies.
Author |
: Emmanuel Alloa |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 404 |
Release |
: 2018-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319771618 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319771612 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transparency, Society and Subjectivity by : Emmanuel Alloa
This book critically engages with the idea of transparency whose ubiquitous demand stands in stark contrast to its lack of conceptual clarity. The book carefully examines this notion in its own right, traces its emergence in Early Modernity and analyzes its omnipresence in contemporary rhetoric. Today, transparency has become a catchword outplaying other Enlightenment values like empowerment, sincerity and the notion of a public sphere. In a suspicious manner, transparency is entangled in the discourses on power, surveillance, and self-exposure. Bringing together prominent scholars from the emerging field of Critical Transparency Studies, the book offers a map of the various sites at which transparency has become virulent and connects the dots between past and present. By studying its appearances in today’s hyper-mediated economies of information and by linking it back to its historical roots, the book analyzes transparency and its discontents, and scrutinizes the reasons why it has become the imperative of a supposedly post-ideological age.
Author |
: Burkart Holzner |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: 2010-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822972875 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822972877 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transparency in Global Change by : Burkart Holzner
Transparency in Global Change examines the quest for information exchange in an increasingly international, open society. Recent transformations in governments and cultures have brought about a surge in the pursuit of knowledge in areas of law, trade, professions, investment, education, and medical practice—among others. Technological advancements in communications, led by the United States, and public access to information fuel the phenomenon of transparency. This rise in transparency parallels a diminution of secrecy—though, as Burkart and Leslie Holzner point out, secrecy continues to exist on many levels. Based on current events and historical references in literature and the social sciences, Transparency in Global Change focuses on the turning points of information cultures, such as scandals, that lead to pressure for transparency. Moreover, the Holzners illuminate byproducts of transparency—debate, insight, and impetus for change, as transparency exposes the moral corruptions of dictatorship, empire, and inequity.
Author |
: Byung-Chul Han |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 69 |
Release |
: 2015-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804797504 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804797501 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Burnout Society by : Byung-Chul Han
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection.
Author |
: David E. Pozen |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2018-08-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231545808 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231545800 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Troubling Transparency by : David E. Pozen
Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement’s canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens to pursue the public good, FOIA is beset by massive backlogs, and corporations and the powerful have become adept at using it for their own interests. Close observers of laws like FOIA have begun to question whether these laws interfere with good governance, display a deleterious anti-public-sector bias, or are otherwise inadequate for the twenty-first century’s challenges. Troubling Transparency brings together leading scholars from different disciplines to analyze freedom of information policies in the United States and abroad—how they are working, how they are failing, and how they might be improved. Contributors investigate the creation of FOIA; its day-to-day uses and limitations for the news media and for corporate and citizen requesters; its impact on government agencies; its global influence; recent alternatives to the FOIA model raised by the emergence of “open data” and other approaches to transparency; and the theoretical underpinnings of FOIA and the right to know. In addition to examining the mixed legacy and effectiveness of FOIA, contributors debate how best to move forward to improve access to information and government functioning. Neither romanticizing FOIA nor downplaying its real and symbolic achievements, Troubling Transparency is a timely and comprehensive consideration of laws such as FOIA and the larger project of open government, with wide-ranging lessons for journalism, law, government, and civil society.
Author |
: Taylor, Roger |
Publisher |
: Policy Press |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 2016-06-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781447325369 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1447325362 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transparency and the Open Society by : Taylor, Roger
Using case studies from around the world, Transparency and the open society surveys the adoption of transparency globally, providing an essential framework for assessing its likely performance as a policy and the steps that can be taken to make it more effective.
Author |
: Byung-Chul Han |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 2018-01-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509523092 |
ISBN-13 |
: 150952309X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Expulsion of the Other by : Byung-Chul Han
The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a 'terror of the Same', lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight and experience but are instead reduced to the echo chambers and illusory encounters offered by social media. In extreme cases, this feeling of disorientation and senselessness is compensated through self-harm, or even harming others through acts of terrorism. Byung-Chul Han argues that our times are characterized not by external repression but by an internal depression, whereby the destructive pressure comes not from the Other but from the self. It is only by returning to a society of listeners and lovers, by acknowledging and desiring the Other, that we can seek to overcome the isolation and suffering caused by this crushing process of total assimilation.
Author |
: Christian Fuchs |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 2007-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135898823 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135898820 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Internet and Society by : Christian Fuchs
By outlining a social theory of the internet and the information society, this book demonstrates how the ecological, economic, political and cultural systems of contemporary society have been transformed by new information and communication technologies.
Author |
: David Brin |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 1999-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465027903 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465027903 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Transparent Society by : David Brin
In New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell that information to anyone willing to pay. Host sites on the World Wide Web record every page you view, and “smart” toll roads know where you drive. Every day, new technology nibbles at our privacy.Does that make you nervous? David Brin is worried, but not just about privacy. He fears that society will overreact to these technologies by restricting the flow of information, frantically enforcing a reign of secrecy. Such measures, he warns, won't really preserve our privacy. Governments, the wealthy, criminals, and the techno-elite will still find ways to watch us. But we'll have fewer ways to watch them. We'll lose the key to a free society: accountability.The Transparent Society is a call for “reciprocal transparency.” If police cameras watch us, shouldn't we be able to watch police stations? If credit bureaus sell our data, shouldn't we know who buys it? Rather than cling to an illusion of anonymity-a historical anomaly, given our origins in close-knit villages-we should focus on guarding the most important forms of privacy and preserving mutual accountability. The biggest threat to our freedom, Brin warns, is that surveillance technology will be used by too few people, now by too many.A society of glass houses may seem too fragile. Fearing technology-aided crime, governments seek to restrict online anonymity; fearing technology-aided tyranny, citizens call for encrypting all data. Brins shows how, contrary to both approaches, windows offer us much better protection than walls; after all, the strongest deterrent against snooping has always been the fear of being spotted. Furthermore, Brin argues, Western culture now encourages eccentricity-we're programmed to rebel! That gives our society a natural protection against error and wrong-doing, like a body's immune system. But “social T-cells” need openness to spot trouble and get the word out. The Transparent Society is full of such provocative and far-reaching analysis.The inescapable rush of technology is forcing us to make new choices about how we want to live. This daring book reminds us that an open society is more robust and flexible than one where secrecy reigns. In an era of gnat-sized cameras, universal databases, and clothes-penetrating radar, it will be more vital than ever for us to be able to watch the watchers. With reciprocal transparency we can detect dangers early and expose wrong-doers. We can gauge the credibility of pundits and politicians. We can share technological advances and news. But all of these benefits depend on the free, two-way flow of information.