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Whistleblowing in a time of digital (in)visibility: towards a sociology of ‘grey areas’
- Source :
- Olesen, T 2022, ' Whistleblowing in a time of digital (in)visibility : towards a sociology of ‘grey areas’ ', Information, Communication & Society, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 295-310 . https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1787484
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2020.
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Abstract
- There are currently no concerted attempts to understand the role of whistleblowers in the new social and political environment created by digital ICTs. Digital ICTs drive an accelerating visibility where elites and citizens constantly acquire new tools to track, surveil, and scrutinize each other. Moreover, these technologies make possible a new kind of invisibility. Increasingly complex modes of digital data production and usage generate grey areas that seem to escape legal jurisdiction and democratic oversight. With their privileged access inside these grey areas, conscientious employees-turned-whistleblowers are likely to become key sources for the disclosure of serious wrongdoing in the coming years. The argument is empirically illustrated through three cases that represent different types of grey areas in advanced democracies: big data surveillance (Edward Snowden), tax havens (Antoine Deltour and the Panama and Paradise Papers), and digital political profiling (Christopher Wylie).
- Subjects :
- tax havens
Panama Papers
democracy
media_common.quotation_subject
Big data
ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING
050801 communication & media studies
Library and Information Sciences
digitalization
Politics
0508 media and communications
Paradise Papers
big data
Christopher Wylie
ComputerApplications_MISCELLANEOUS
NSA
050602 political science & public administration
whistleblowing
Sociology
POLITICS
media_common
business.industry
Communication
05 social sciences
Visibility (geometry)
Edward Snowden
Public relations
Democracy
0506 political science
ICTs
surveillance
ICTS
business
Subjects
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- ISSN :
- 14684462 and 1369118X
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Information, Communication & Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f0d4d87334b43d2673e2545fd18a32b0