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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication. Docherty outlines a philosophy of confession that has pertinence for a contemporary political culture based on the notion of 'transparency'. In a postmodern 'transparent society', the self coincides with its self-representations. Such a position is central to the idea of authenticity and truth-telling in confessional writing: it is the basis of saying, truthfully, 'here I take my stand'. The question is: what other consequences might there be of an assumption of the primacy of transparency? Two areas are examined in detail: the religious and the judicial. Docherty shows that despite the tendency to regard transparency as a general social and ethical good, our contemporary culture of transparency has engendered a society in which autonomy (or the very authority of the subject that proclaims 'I confess') is grounded in guilt, reparation and victimhood.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Glass and Architecture in Ancient Times -- 2. Dark Ages?: Architectural Glass in Early Medieval Europe -- 3. Light from Light: The Theology of Stained Glass -- 4. "Closyd well with royall glas": Medieval Domestic Glass -- 5. "Glass windows made of fabric": A Forgotten Tradition -- 6. From the House of God to the Houses of Burghers -- 7. Glass and Class: Personalization and Prestige -- 8. From Sacred Material to Secular Commodity: The Reformation of Glass -- 9. The Rise of Cristallo -- 10. More Light: From the Baroque to the Enlightenment -- 11. Too Much Glass: The Genealogy of a Nineteenth-Century Concern -- 12. Palaces of Glass: Vitreous Visions in an Age of Public Glass -- 13. Modernity and the Struggle for Glass Architecture -- 14. Transparency between Totalitarianism and Democracy -- 15. Postwar Enthusiasm, Postmodernist Rejection-and the Present -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Credits.

This ambitious book develops an integrative understanding of business transparency spanning business disciplines. It synthesizes the vast, siloed research on business transparency to develop and provide an integrative view for business researchers and scholars, pointing out research opportunities in the process. The first chapter introduces business transparency with a brief historical overview, followed by its key conceptualizations and challenges. Chapters 2 through 5 take up four conceptually distinct views of transparency in depth: transparency as strategic disclosure (Chapter 2), transparency as a business tactic (Chapter 3), transparency as organizational culture (Chapter 4) and transparency as a managerial virtue (Chapter 5). Chapter 6 explores transparencys infeasibility challenge through the chasm between disclosure and understanding and considers its implications. The final chapter provides an integrative framework of business transparency. This book will be useful to business academics who are interested in transparency and associated concepts. Utpal Dholakia is a Professor of Marketing and holds the George R. Brown chair at the Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, USA. He has published over a hundred articles and written two books. His academic work concerns pricing strategy, customer experience, entrepreneurship, and digital marketing.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Transparency and its connection to journalism -- Transparency: Essence, purpose, and how it made its way into journalism -- The fragile theoretical and empirical foundation of transparency in journalism -- Transparency as ritual in journalistic practice -- Theoretical points of departure influencing the book -- The imagined audience, structure, and content of the book -- 2. Journalistic transparency in history and context -- The emergence and solidification of transparency -- The philosophical roots of transparency in liberal democratic theory -- Comparing the transparency dimension in governmental and journalistic institutions -- The implicit theory of transparency -- The performative transparency model -- Black box and glass box -- Summary -- 3. Can you see the sunlight? Transparency at work -- Can you see the sunlight? -- Journalistic actors -- Content: Stage, aesthetics, and delivery -- The public -- Survey research -- Experiments -- … And transparency for all? -- Transparency in practice: Not much sunlight thus far -- 4. Algorithmic forms of transparency and opacity -- The increasing role of algorithms in journalism -- Russian dolls: Black boxes inside other black boxes, inside… -- Unpacking the role of algorithms in transparent journalistic performance -- Computer says no -- 5. The limits of the transparency myth -- Inevitable cost/benefit trade-offs -- The need for professional discretion and the ever-present curtain and backstage -- Transparency as the opposite of trust -- Transparency is not openness -- A successful flop: How transparency was adopted despite a lack of evidence -- What is left of transparency? -- 6. Transparency after all? -- Three waves of transparency in journalism.

"Investigating the theoretical and empirical relationships between transparency and trust in the context of surveillance, this volume argues that neither transparency nor trust provides a simple and self-evident path for mitigating the negative political and social consequences of state surveillance practices. Dominant in both the scholarly literature and public debate is the conviction that transparency can promote better-informed decisions, greater oversight, and restore trust damaged by the secrecy of surveillance. The contributions to this volume challenge this conventional wisdom by considering how relations of trust and policies of transparency are modulated by underlying power asymmetries, socio-historical legacies, economic structures, and institutional constraints. They study trust and transparency as embedded in specific socio-political contexts to show how, under certain conditions, transparency can become a tool of social control that erodes trust, while mistrust-rather than trust-can sometimes offer the most promising approach to safeguarding rights and freedom in an age of surveillance. The first book addressing the inter-relationship of trust, transparency, and surveillance practices, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of surveillance studies as well as appeal to an interdisciplinary audience given the contributions come from political science, sociology, philosophy, law, and civil society"--

Transparency and its connection to journalism -- Journalistic transparency in history and context -- Can you see the sunlight? Transparency at work -- Algorithmic forms of transparency and opacity -- The limits of the transparency myth -- Transparency after all.

AbstractAutomated algorithms are silently making crucial decisions about our lives, but most of the time we have little understanding of how they work. To counter this hidden influence, there have been increasing calls for algorithmic transparency. Much ink has been spilled over the informational account of algorithmic transparency—about how much information should be revealed about the inner workings of an algorithm. But few studies question the power structure beneath the informational disclosure of the algorithm. As a result, the information disclosure itself can be a means of manipulation used by a group of people to advance their own interests. Instead of concentrating on information disclosure, this paper examines algorithmic transparency from the perspective of power, explaining how algorithmic transparency under a disciplinary power structure can be a technique of normalizing people's behavior. The informational disclosure of an algorithm can not only set up some de facto norms, but also build a scientific narrative of its algorithm to justify those norms. In doing so, people would be internally motivated to follow those norms with less critical analysis. This article suggests that we should not simply open the black box of an algorithm without challenging the existing power relations.

AbstractThe role of new sources of data has become of increasing interest to those involved in political campaigning and a legislative focus of policy makers and regulators. Utilising Karl‐Heinz Nassmacher's 'magic quadrangle' of 'accounting, practicality, sanctions and transparency' and a case study of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 this article unpicks how successful the 'guiding philosophy' of transparency was in delivering increased citizen confidence in the democratic process. I ultimately argue that at the heart of all discussions about what regulation in this area should look like, an uncomfortable paradox has to be accepted: that transparency may well help to quell actual instances of malfeasance and the misuse of data, but may at the same time increase citizen distrust in democratic processes. Any regulation should consider the ways in which transparency might be implemented such that it better supports the stated legislative aims.

The role of new sources of data has become of increasing interest to those involved in political campaigning and a legislative focus of policy makers and regulators. Utilising Karl‐Heinz Nassmacher's 'magic quadrangle' of 'accounting, practicality, sanctions and transparency' and a case study of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 this article unpicks how successful the 'guiding philosophy' of transparency was in delivering increased citizen confidence in the democratic process. I ultimately argue that at the heart of all discussions about what regulation in this area should look like, an uncomfortable paradox has to be accepted: that transparency may well help to quell actual instances of malfeasance and the misuse of data, but may at the same time increase citizen distrust in democratic processes. Any regulation should consider the ways in which transparency might be implemented such that it better supports the stated legislative aims.