‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’: Anonymity, Information Curation, and Democratic Accountability in a Digital Age

• In Event: Democratic Norms and Democratic Knowledge

Brief Overview

Comparing the Pentagon Papers and WikiLeaks, we argue that information is democratically valuable when two curation processes are triggered: 1) selection (to determine what to share) and 2) contextualization (to determine how best to share it).

Authors

• Jennifer Forestal, Loyola University Chicago

• Menaka M. Philips, Tulane University of Louisiana