Visibility in the digital age

Introduction

Bibliographic Data

ID6170607
AuthorsCornelia Brantner (0000-0002-8504-5691, Karlstad University), Helena Stehle (0000-0001-6959-9945, University of Münster)
Year2021
Volume21
Issue1
Publication date2021-06-10
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Communication Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1424-4896 • E-ISSN: 2296-4150
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.24434/j.scoms.2021.01.006
OpenAlexW3166016359
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited12

In the digital age, calls for transparency and openness as well as for privacy and confidentiality prevail: Struggles for visibility occur simultaneously with conflicts regarding invisibility and hidden battles for power and privileges of interpretation. Concerns about a loss of digital self-determination exist, just like those regarding the “right to be forgotten” or the right to become invisible and unseen. While the idea of a “transparent user” – as the ultimate notion of (in)voluntary visibility – has caused a broad outcry in society and in scientific debates a few years ago (Palfrey & Gasser, 2008), the discussion has shifted toward considerations of Internet governance and regulation (Camenisch, Fischer-Hübner, & Hansen, 2015). Brighenti (2010, p. 109) has pointed out that visibility has long been one of the key aspects “associated with the public sphere” and that in today’s digitized publics, the “project of democracy can no longer be imagined without taking into account visibility and its outcomes” (Brighenti, 2010, p. 189). Visibility and invisibility, along with their societal outcomes, are increasingly being discussed and analyzed, as they are becoming important dimensions in the accurate description and explanation of digital communication

Business · Corporate governance · Democracy · Geography · Internet privacy · Interpretation (philosophy · Invisibility · Media studies · Openness to experience · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Public sphere · Publics · Secrecy · Sociology · The Internet · Transparency (behavior · Visibility · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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