Beyond the skin bag: on the moral responsibility of extended agencies
Ethics and Information Technology
Black and white transparency: contradictions of a moral metaphor
Ethics and Information Technology
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To explore policy implementation in technologically mediated environments, this case study analyzes how citizens and candidates co-conceptualize and practice transparency and accountability in a social media context. During a municipal election in a Canadian municipality, a citizens' group created a blog to encourage election candidates to disclose campaign donation amounts and sources. Although post-election disclosure is legislated, the citizens argued that pre-election disclosure would inform voter's decisions by revealing potential candidate-corporate allegiances. The resulting blog content is an unanticipated policy outcome that is compared with the municipality's standard post-election campaign contribution report. The blog - a collaboration of different human and nonhuman agencies - is re-described as an assembling. A feminist-material analysis is applied to disclose the differences between these two technologically mediated policy implementations. The comparison inquires into the unexpected outcomes of citizen-led transparency and accountability implementation including political and policy process implications.