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Adams, Guy B, & Balfour, Danny L. "Open Secrets": The Masked Dynamics of Ethical Failures and Administrative Evil

 

Alloa, Emmanuel. Architectures of Transparency

 

Assange, Julian. State and Terrorist Conspiracies

 

Bannister, Frank, & Connolly, Regina. The Trouble with Transparency: A Critical View of Openness in e-Government

 

Bauman, Zygmunt. Privacy, Secrecy, Intimacy, Human Bonds - And Other Collateral Casualties of Liquid Modernity

 

BBC. The History of Secrecy

 

Benkler, Yocahi. A Free, Irresponsible Press; WikiLeaks and the Battle over the Soul of the Fourth Estate

 

Berlant, Lauren. Writing Light

 

Biedelman, Thomas O. Secrecy and Society: The Paradox of Knowing and the Knowing of Paradox

 

Birchall, Clare. Aesthetics of the Secret  / Shareveillance

 

Blas, Zach. Facial Weaponization Suite / Informatic Opacity

 

Blumenthal, Paul. The History of Transparency

 

Boesel, Whitney Erin. Cyborgology: A New Privacy

 

Brunton, Finn. After WikiLeaks, Us / KeySpace: WikiLeaks and the Assange Papers

 

Catanzariti, Mariavittoria. New Arcana Imperii

 

Chinen, Mark A. Secrecy and Democratic Decisions

 

Coleman, G. What We Can Learn from Anonymous

 

Curtin, Deirdre. Top Secret Europe

 

Fenster, Mark. Disclosure's Effects: WikiLeaks and Transparency  /  The Transparency Fix

 

Future Human Podcast. Transparent Life #13

 

Gallsion, Peter. Removing Knowledge / Secrecy, Surveillance, and the Self

 

Gibbs, David N. Sigmund Freud as a Theorist of Government Secrecy 

 

The Guardian. Secret Courts: The Essential Guide

 

Geroulanos, Stefanos. Transparency in Postwar France

 

Giri, Saroj. WikiLeaks beyond WikiLeaks

 

Gup, Ted. Investigative Reporting about Secrecy

 

Hood, Christopher. From FOI World to WikiLeaks World

 

Horton, Scott. Weber—‘Official Secrets’ and Bureaucratic Warfare / Beltway Secrecy

 

Laruelle, Francois. The Truth According to Hermes: Theorems on the Secret and Communication

 

Lee, Pamela M. Open Secret: The Work of Art Between Disclosure and Redaction

 

Leitao, Carla. Meta-Transparency: Mixing Science with Social Networks and Politics

 

Leonard, J. William. The Corrupting Influence of Secrecy on National Security Policy Decisions

 

McDermott, Patrice. Secrecy Reform or Secrecy Redux: Access to Information in the Obama Administration

 

Maret, Susan. Contested Visions, Imperfect Information, and the Persistence of Conspiracy Theories / Intellectual Freedom and U.S. Government Secrecy / Introduction, Government Secrecy, vol. 19 RSPPP / Various posts on secrecy @ bkofsecrets [blog] 

 

Mendoza, Nikolas. A Tale of Two Worlds: Apocalypse, 4Chan, WikiLeaks and the Silent Protocol Worlds

 

Molleindustria. Leaky World: A Playable Theory

 

Nagel, Thomas. Concealment and Exposure

 

National Audit Office (UK). Implementing Transparency

 

New Everyday MediaCommons Project. Politics in the Age of Transparency and Secrecy

 

Nossek, Hillel, & Limor, Yehiel. The Israeli Paradox: Military Censorship as a Protector of Freedom of the Press

 

Oh, Kate. Trump's Year of Secrecy

 

O'Hara, Kieron.  Transparent Government, Not Transparent Citizen

 

Oliver, Julian. Transparency Grenade

 

Olmsted Kathryn S. Government Secrecy and Conspiracy Theories

 

Open the Government. Secrecy Reports

 

Oleszek Walter J. Congressional Lawmaking: A Perspective on Transparency and Secrecy

 

Piltz, Rick. Secrecy, Complicity, and Resistance: Political Control of Climate Science Communication Under the Bush-Cheney Administration

 

Pouvoirs, revue francaise d'etudes constitutionnelles et politiques. Transparence et Secret

 

Pozen, David. Deep Secrecy

 

Roberts, Alasdair. Open Secrets and Dirty Hands  /  WikiLeaks: The Illusion of Transparency

 

Ruppert, Evelyn. Lecture, Doing the Transparent State: Methods and their Subjectifying Effects/Affects

 

Simmel, Georg. The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies

 

Sperling, Stefan. The Politics of Transparency and Surveillance in Post-Reunification Germany

 

Stone, Geoffrey R. Government Secrecy vs. Freedom of the Press

 

Sunstein, Cass.  Government Control of Information

 

Tsoukas, Haridimous. The Tyranny of Light   

 

Various authors, Law and Contemporary Problems: Sequestered Science: The Consequences of Undisclosed Knowledge

 

Various authors, Secrecy and Society (open access journal)

 

Various speakers, The Politics and Practices of Secrecy (podcast)

 

WikiRebels: The Documentary

 

Wilkinson, Nicholas. National Security, Secrecy, and the Media - A British View

 

Worthy, Ben, & Bourke, Gabrielle. The Sword and the Shield: The Use of FOI by Parliamentarians

 

Zizek, Slavov. Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks