Designing hues of transparency and democracy after WikiLeaks

Vigilance to vigilantes and back again

Bibliographic Data

ID12656332
AuthorsLuke Heemsbergen (0000-0001-8600-5280, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author), Luke J Heemsbergen (The University of Melbourne)
Year2014
Volume17
Issue8
Pages1340-1357
Publication date2014-02-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1461444814524323
OpenAlexW2104644054
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited19

This article offers an interpretive critique of the political affordances created through iterations of the WikiLeaks project. The research shows that delineated phases of the WikiLeaks transparency project often correlate with specific paradigms of digital democracy that were previously enunciated in this journal by Lincoln Dahlberg. The research builds upon and extends Dahlberg’s democratic paradigms by comparing new objects against the typology and offering a theoretical explanation towards how political affordances are formed in digital democracy. Specifically, the article relates theories of affordance to an informing/deforming design process to explain how political positions are created in new media apparatus. The article traces iterations of WikiLeaks from 2006 to 2011, as well as derivative projects of radical transparency that existed in 2012 and 2013

Affordance · Democracy · Epistemology · Human–computer interaction · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transparency (behavior · Typology · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · E-Government and Public Services · Law · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics

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