Transparency, Power, and Control: Perspectives on Legal Communication

This volume offers informed, research-based reflections on the growing importance of socio-legal concepts such as Transparency, Control and Power, which have assumed increasing importance in the present-day environment of information explosionin the public domain. One of the important responsibilities of any state is to provide the social order in which the individual liberties of its citizens are protected. The State is required to ensure simultaneously and paradoxically a high level of individual freedom and an order in which such freedom is made possible and guaranteed. This book brings togetheracademics, and practitioners from a range of disciplines from more than 20 countries toreflect on the growing importance of these issues in our international community and how these concerns and ideas have been examined, used and interpreted in a range of national and international contexts. Contributors explore these issues from a range of overlapping concerns and perspectives, such as semiotic, sociolinguistic, psychological, philosophical, and visual in diverse socio-political, administrative, institutional, as well as legal contexts. The collection examines the ways in which "actors" in our society - legislators, politicians, activists, movie producers, singers, painters, graffiti artists, photographers etc. - have provoked public discourses to confront the issues of Transparency,Control and Power.