Anti-Corruption Initiatives and the Digital Challenge
The Role of Civil Society Organizations and Whistleblowing Infrastructures in the Italian Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3757512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Fubini (0000-0002-6921-212X, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, corresponding author), Alessandra Lo Piccolo (0000-0002-6467-5336, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1072-1093 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027642241268590 |
| OpenAlex | W4401774703 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 45 |
Civil society organizations increasingly rely on digital technologies to intervene in the whistleblowing process and advance their anti-corruption goals. However, scholars have yet to investigate how civil society organizations' use of digital technologies impacts their role as whistleblowing actors and what consequences this might entail. Moving from this gap, the article explores how civil society organizations exploit digital technologies to intervene in the whistleblowing process and how their use of digital technologies affects patterns of interactions with institutional actors in the whistleblowing process. The article combines situational and thematic analysis to investigate three whistleblowing initiatives deployed by Italian civil society organizations: Linea Libera, the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre for Whistleblowers, and Whistleblowing PA. The results show that grassroots whistleblowing initiatives are more than just services or tools but represent whistleblowing infrastructures, running on more or less sophisticated technologies, which grant their developers a role as low- or high-tech intermediaries in the whistleblowing process, in turn affecting the relational dynamics between grassroots and institutional actors and civil society organizations' influence over the whistleblowing process
Business · Civil society · Context (archaeology) · Grassroots · Intermediary · Language change · Political science · Politics · Process (computing) · Public relations · Qualitative research · Situational ethics · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Corruption and Economic Development · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Marketing · Public Administration · Regulation and Compliance Studies
Undone science and social movements
Bots against corruption
Media ecologies and protest movements
The Quest for Good Governance
The Art of Moral Protest
Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis
Thematic Analysis
Network social capital as an outcome of social movement mobilization
Reframing the whistleblower in research
WikiLeaks
The grounded theory method to study data-enabled activism against corruption
Digital media infrastructures
De la calle a las instituciones a través de las apps
The corruption cure
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Securing Whistleblowing in the Digital Age
A situated understanding of digital technologies in social movements. Media ecology and media practice approaches
Social accountability as social movement outcome
Whistleblowing
Media Ecology
Social Movements and Social Capital
Technology- and Product-Oriented Movements
Current Issues, Problems, and Trends to Advance Qualitative Paradigmatic Research Methods for the Future
Theories of whistleblowing
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
Interests and credibility
Unpacking the Political Effects of Social Movements With a Strong Digital Component
Thematic Analysis
The Status of Method
New Technologies as a Neglected Social Movement Outcome
The Politics of Whistleblowing in Digitalized Societies
Whistleblowers and Organizational Protesters
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |