Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is the co-editor of Contested Transparencies, Social Movements and the Public Sphere: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective.

Susanne Fengler is Professor of International Journalism and Director of the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism at TU Dortmund University. She is the co-editor of Journalists and Media Accountability, Mapping Media Accountability in Europe and Beyond, and the European Handbook of Media Accountability.

Dimitrij Owetschkin is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is the co-editor of Contested Transparencies, Social Movements and the Public Sphere: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives.

Julia Sittmann is Research Associate at the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, and a writer and editor at Deutsche Welle Akademie, Germany.

1. Cultures of Transparency in a Changing World - an Introduction
   Dimitrij Owetschkin, Julia Sittmann, Stefan Berger

Part I: Transparency and Public Policy - Historical and Methodological Perspectives

2. Transparency in Public Affairs: The Rise of a Successful Political Metaphor
   Sandrine Baume
3. Transparency and Economic Development
   Jens Forssbaeck

Part II: Transparency in the Digital Age

4. Bullets of Truth: Julian Assange and the Politics of Transparency
   Mark Fenster
5. Whistleblowers, Media, and Democracy in Latin America
   Rogério Christofoletti
6. Blind Spots: Shedding Light on Media Transparency Research Across the World
   Susanne Fengler, Dominik Speck, Mariella Bastian and Judith Pies

Part III: The Limits of Informational Openness

7. Does Transparency Endanger Trust? Reflections on a Delicate Relationship
   Martin Hartmann
8. Can Transparency be a Sin? On the Advantages and Obstacles of the New SilverBullet in Academic Research
   Stefan Hornbostel
9. The Limits of Transparency: China, the United States and the World TradeOrganization
   Padideh Ala'i & Katayoon Beshkardana

Part IV: Transparency and the Individual - The "End of Privacy"

10. Transparency and Privatisation
    Thomas Docherty
11. Transparency, Privacy, and Civil Inattention
    Emmanuel Alloa

Part V: Towards a "Transparent Society"?

12. Stainless Subjects: Transparency Imaginaries of the Avantgardes
    Vincent Kaufman
13. The Idea of the Public Sphere and Social Movements as Agents of Transparency:Historical Perspectives
    Stefan Berger and Dimitrij Owetschkin