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oapen-20.500.12657-513872023-07-11T09:12:47Z Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance Viola, Lora Anne Laidler, Paweł Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology 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, provide 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, sociohistorical legacies, economic structures, and institutional constraints. They study trust and transparency as embedded in specific sociopolitical 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 interrelationship 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 from political science, sociology, philosophy, law, and civil society. 2021-11-09T15:09:21Z 2021-11-09T15:09:21Z 2022 book ONIX_20211109_9781000488425_8 9781000488425 9780367638160 9780367638177 9781003120827 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51387 eng Routledge Studies in Surveillance application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000488425.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003120827 10.4324/9781003120827 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie 9781000488425 9780367638160 9780367638177 9781003120827 Routledge 282 open access
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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, provide 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, sociohistorical legacies, economic structures, and institutional constraints. They study trust and transparency as embedded in specific sociopolitical 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 interrelationship 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 from political science, sociology, philosophy, law, and civil society.
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