Radical transparency and digital democracy: Wikileaks and beyond

This book tells the story of radical transparency in a datafied world. It is a story that not only includes the beginnings of WikiLeaks and its endings as a weapon of the GRU, but also exposes numerous other decentralised disclosure networks designed to crack open democracy - for good or ill - that followed in its wake.

This is a story that can only be understood through rethinking how technologies of government, practices of media, and assumptions of democracy interact. By combining litera...