Digital Media and Grassroots Anti-Corruption: Contexts, Platforms and Data of Anti-Corruption Technologies Worldwide
Deep Insights
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing (2024), x, 275 pp.
"Delving into a burgeoning field of research, this enlightening book utilises case studies from across the globe to explore how digital media is used at the grassroots level to combat corruption. Bringing together an impressive range of experts, Alice Mattoni deftly assesses the design, creation and use of a wide range of anti-corruption technologies. This invaluable book introduces the concept of anti-corruption technologies (ACTs) to answer critical questions about the opportunities and challenges that established and emerging digital media offers to practitioners. Chapters detail the situated nature of these technologies, before examining key technologies including anonymous crowdsourcing, collaborative platforms, whistleblowing platforms and online monitoring of electoral corruption. Finally, the book offers a critical understanding of the challenges that digital media poses to anti-corruption practitioners in different contexts, and how this is linked to different conceptions of democracy." (Publisher description)
1 Digital media and technologies in grassroots struggles against corruption / Alice Mattoni, 1
PART I: CONTEXTS
2 From concerned citizens to civic bots: The bottom-up fight against corruption in Brazil from a longitudinal perspective / Fernanda Odilla, 24
3 Anti-corruption and transparency in civil society organisations in Uruguay: The challenges of fostering an agenda when the attention is elsewhere / Germán Bidegain, 52
4 Anti-corruption ‘from below’ and digital media during regime change: A comparative analysis of two North African countries [Tunisia, Algeria] / Ester Sigillò, 75
PART II: PLATFORMS
5 Potentialities and affordances of grassroots civic tech platforms as effective anti-corruption tools: Decoding the story of I Paid A Bribe, India / Anwesha Chakraborty, 97
6 The social construction of anti-corruption technologies: Analysing the e-participation platform rahvaalgatus.ee in Estonia / Oksana Huss, 118
7 Digital whistleblowing platforms for anti-corruption: The Transparency International Italia case / Philip Di Salvo, 140
8 Digital technology, citizens’ engagement and electoral corruption in Colombia / Manoel Gehrke, 161
PART III: DATA
9 Data practices and informative activism in the grassroots struggles against corruption / Alice Fubini, 181
10 Involving citizens through multi-platform strategies: Transparency Watch in North Macedonia / Dale Mineshima-Lowe, 205
11 Artificial intelligence as a weapon to fight corruption: Civil society actors on the benefits and risks of existing bottom-up approaches / Julia Forjan, Nils Köbis, and Christopher Starke, 229
12 The challenges of anti-corruption technologies from the grassroots / Alice Mattoni, 250
PART I: CONTEXTS
2 From concerned citizens to civic bots: The bottom-up fight against corruption in Brazil from a longitudinal perspective / Fernanda Odilla, 24
3 Anti-corruption and transparency in civil society organisations in Uruguay: The challenges of fostering an agenda when the attention is elsewhere / Germán Bidegain, 52
4 Anti-corruption ‘from below’ and digital media during regime change: A comparative analysis of two North African countries [Tunisia, Algeria] / Ester Sigillò, 75
PART II: PLATFORMS
5 Potentialities and affordances of grassroots civic tech platforms as effective anti-corruption tools: Decoding the story of I Paid A Bribe, India / Anwesha Chakraborty, 97
6 The social construction of anti-corruption technologies: Analysing the e-participation platform rahvaalgatus.ee in Estonia / Oksana Huss, 118
7 Digital whistleblowing platforms for anti-corruption: The Transparency International Italia case / Philip Di Salvo, 140
8 Digital technology, citizens’ engagement and electoral corruption in Colombia / Manoel Gehrke, 161
PART III: DATA
9 Data practices and informative activism in the grassroots struggles against corruption / Alice Fubini, 181
10 Involving citizens through multi-platform strategies: Transparency Watch in North Macedonia / Dale Mineshima-Lowe, 205
11 Artificial intelligence as a weapon to fight corruption: Civil society actors on the benefits and risks of existing bottom-up approaches / Julia Forjan, Nils Köbis, and Christopher Starke, 229
12 The challenges of anti-corruption technologies from the grassroots / Alice Mattoni, 250
