Two practices and one Act: Mangling tecnologically mediated transparency.

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dc.contributor.authorBrown, Pamela Anne
dc.contributor.supervisorMoss, Pamela
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-05T23:36:46Z
dc.date.available2013-12-05T23:36:46Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-12-05
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Public Health and Social Policyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractDuring a municipal election in 2010, Canadian citizens used a blog to enact an ad hoc campaign funding disclosure request of all candidates. After the election, the municipality implemented formal legislation requiring campaign funding disclosure on their own website. This thesis is a case study that explores how two technologically mediated transparency practices were constituted within and outside the scope of legislation. I draw on Andrew Pickering's (1995) notion of the mangle of practice and Karen Barad's (2003) concept of intra-action to conceptualize these transparency practices as a mangle of entwining intra-connected phenomena. In my exploration of policy in practice I deconstruct transparency practice through a discussion of how transparency mechanisms and social media characteristics intra-act and transform each other into a practice that supersedes the original intent of the ad hoc request and formal legislation. This research queries assumptions about transparency practices and contributes to establishing an interdisciplinary methodology for policy evaluation in technologically mediated environments.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0617en_US
dc.description.proquestemailpaganda@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5064
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjecttechnical mediationen_US
dc.subjecttransparency practiceen_US
dc.subjectmangle of practiceen_US
dc.subjectintra-activityen_US
dc.subjectfeminist materialismen_US
dc.subjectpolicy evaluationen_US
dc.subjectmunicipal electionen_US
dc.subjectsocial mediaen_US
dc.subjectaccountabilityen_US
dc.subjectpublic sector reformen_US
dc.titleTwo practices and one Act: Mangling tecnologically mediated transparency.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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