Psychoanalysis against WikiLeaks
Resisting the demand for transparency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21740771 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Atilla Hallsby (0000-0003-2302-4315, University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-86 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1535-8593 • E-ISSN: 1535-8593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15358593.2019.1706761 |
| OpenAlex | W2999122744 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
With the intensifying demand for transparency in government has come a dramatic increase in the number of spectacular public leaks that carry dramatic public consequences. This essay reviews how transparency has been considered an ideal of democratic theory and critical media scholarship and offers several psychoanalytic tenets for reading public demands for transparency. The essay then analyses discourse by and about WikiLeaks to illustrate how Julian Assange's discourse results in a program of transparency that engages in destructive rituals of disavowal and exposure
Democracy · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |