Seeing without Knowing

Ananny, M., & Crawford, K. (2018). Seeing without Knowing: Limitations of the Transparency Ideal and Its Application to Algorithmic Accountability. New Media & Society, 20(3), 973-989.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2018

DOI

10.1177/1461444816676645

Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816676645

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Mechanisms

• Granular Permission Dashboard
  • Its failure mode is the transparency placebo — a beautiful review surface that shows everything and changes nothing, where "we give users a dashboard" substitutes for making refusal easy or enforcement real.

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