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Record W2620803763 · doi:10.15173/mjc.v8i0.262

The Politics of Transparency

2013· article· en· W2620803763 on OpenAlex
Robyn Lew

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe McMaster Journal of Communication · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCinema and Media Studies
Canadian institutionsAurora CollegeUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSpectacleTransparency (behavior)PoliticsSociologyAestheticsIdeologyFraming (construction)Political scienceMedia studiesLawLaw and economicsArtHistory

Abstract

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This article investigates society’s increasing obsession with transparency through the medium of photography and WikiLeaks. It suggests that Julian Assange’s fixation on exposure as a means to reveal the truth about government systems is reflective of the processes of an ideology of publicity that also works in a society governed through the processes of the spectacle. In this investigation, Retort’s work, claiming that the spectacle hides the violence inherent in neoliberal militarism, is employed to support the ways in which WikiLeaks has become a spectacle in and of itself through its implication in processes of capitalism and the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The paper also investigates the ways in which the increased desire for transparency has accorded itself with the right to visibility, which is ultimately linked to a desire for truth. Judith Butler’s theory of framing is explored to highlight the ways in which information cannot always be entirely contained by the frame (of reality and photography). Ariella Azoulay’s The Civil Contract of Photography also becomes a departure point for elucidating the problematic tendency for those who attempt to reveal what is hidden to become too invested in the potentiality for truth in what is intentionally excluded from the field of visibility.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.245
Threshold uncertainty score0.113

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.193 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it