Black and white transparency: contradictions of a moral metaphor
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Transparency requires active production of information.
“The language of transparency suggests we are removing things obscuring our view, while in fact transparency requires active production of information (Menéndez-Viso 2009).”
From Tensions in transparent urban AI: designing a smart electric vehicle charge point (2023) · cites this paper as Menéndez-Viso 2009
What experts do in the project supports the notion that transparency requires active production of information.
“However, what we see them do in our project is something quite different, and supports the notion that transparency requires active production of information (Menéndez-Viso 2009).”
From Tensions in transparent urban AI: designing a smart electric vehicle charge point (2023) · cites this paper as Menéndez-Viso 2009
The position of experts mirrors the idea that transparency has no moral content, it is a means towards an end.
“The position of experts here mirrors the idea that transparency has no moral content (Menéndez-Viso 2009), it is a means towards an end.”
From Tensions in transparent urban AI: designing a smart electric vehicle charge point (2023) · cites this paper as Menéndez-Viso 2009
Information quality over quantity is the actual moral problem of transparency.
“In other words, information quality over quantity is the actual moral problem of transparency (Menéndez-Viso 2009).”
From Tensions in transparent urban AI: designing a smart electric vehicle charge point (2023) · cites this paper as Menéndez-Viso 2009
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“However, what we see them do in our project is something quite different, and supports the notion that transparency requires active production of information (Menéndez-Viso 2009).”
BackgroundInfluential
- Authors
- Menéndez-Viso, A.
- Venue
- Ethics and Information Technology
- Published
- 2009-05-06
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 155-162
- ISSN
- 1388-1957 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-8439
- OpenAlex
- W2107862431
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 4.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Ethics and Information Technology (publishedVersion)
- Consultation of the Doctoral Thesis Database (TESEO) (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- University of Exeter
- Universidad de Oviedo
- Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Cultural Studies and Postmodernism
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Keywords
- transparency, moral metaphor, opacity, Plato, corporate transparency, government transparency, information technology, reporting
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