Contested Transparencies, Social Movements and the Public Sphere

1 Contested Transparencies - an Introduction - Dimitrij Owetschkin and Stefan Berger. - Part I: Transparency and Ideology: Semantic and Historical Aspects. - 2 Transparency s Trap: Problems of an Unquestioned Norm - Frieder Vogelmann. - 3 The Fly on a Pane of Glass: Paradoxes of Transparency - Manfred Schneider. - 4 Literature, Transparency, Ideology: Functions of Literature in Negotiating Transparency - Jens Martin Gurr. - Part II: Transparency and the Public Sphere. - 5 Communication among Strangers: Concepts of the Public Sphere in American Newspapers of the 18th and Early 19th Century - Friedrich Jaeger. - 6 Journalism and Transparency: A Mass Communications Perspective - Susanne Fengler and Dominik Speck. - Part III: Transparency, State and Surveillance. - 7 Intelligence, Mistrust and Transparency: A Case Study of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution - Constantin Goschler. - 8 The `Traube Affair : Transparency as a Legitimation and Action Strategy between Surveillance, Publicity and Privacy - Christopher Kirchberg and Marcel Schmeer. - Part IV: Transparency Conflicts and Social Movements. - 9 Promises of Transparency, Promises of Participation: On the Ambivalent Rhetoric of the Occupy Movement - Martin Butler. - 10 The Dual Nature of Transparency: Corporatization and Democratization of Global Production Networks - Christian Scheper and Sabrina Zajak. - 11 The Role of Transparency in Urban Planning Processes Jan Polivka and Christa Reicher.