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Encyclopedia > Media transparency

Media Transparency is the concept of determining how and why information is conveyed through various means. Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: transparency, transparent The root meaning of Transparency is a quality of certain materials which means that one can see through them. ... The ASCII codes for the word Wikipedia represented in binary, the numeral system most commonly used for encoding computer information. ...


This is a specific case of the topic, Transparency (humanities). As used in the humanities, it implies openness and accountability. It is a metaphorical extension of the meaning used in the physical sciences: a “transparent” object is one that can be seen through. In the physical sciences, specifically in optics, a transparent physical object is one that can be seen through. ... The humanities are those academic disciplines which study the human condition using methods that are largely analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences. ...


In communication studies, Media is transparent when: To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

  • there are many, often competing, sources of information
  • much is known about the method of information delivery
  • the funding of media production is publicly available

Aspects of transparent media include open source documentation, open meetings, financial disclosure statements, the freedom of information legislation, budgetary review, audit, peer review, etc. Funding or financing is to provide capital (funds), which means money for a project, a person, a business or any other private or public institutions. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Disclosure means the giving out of information, either voluntarily or to be in compliance with legal regulations or workplace rules. ... Over seventy countries around the world have implemented some form of freedom of information legislation. ... For other uses, see Audit (disambiguation). ... Peer review (known as refereeing in some academic fields) is a scholarly process used in the publication of manuscripts and in the awarding of funding for research. ...


Some organisations and networks insist that not only the ordinary information of interest to the community is made freely available, but that all (or nearly all) meta-levels of organising and decision-making are themselves also published. This is known as radical transparency. These organizations include: Wikipedia, the GNU/Linux community, and Indymedia. Decision making is the cognitive process leading to the selection of a course of action among variations. ... Radical transparency is a management method where nearly all decision making is carried out publicly. ... Wikipedia (IPA: , or ( ) is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. ... GNU (pronounced ) is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... The Independent Media Center, also called Indymedia or the IMC, is a loose network of amateur or alternative media organizations and journalists who organize into decentralized collectives, normally around geographic locations. ...


Media Transparency may also refer to the nonprofit organization of the same name which maintains a website at mediatransparency.org devoted to providing information on right-wing funding, especially as it relates to United States media. A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ...

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When an organization (corporate, government, non-profit, or other) holds a meeting and the proceedings are open to the public and the press, when the meeting is: Public is of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to private; as, the public treasury, a road or lake. ... For other uses, see Journalist (disambiguation). ...

The meeting is more transparent because there is less opportunity for the organization to abuse the system of information delivery in their own interest. This assumes that the organization does not own or otherwise affect the media conveying the information. Newsprint is low-cost, low-quality, non-archival paper. ... This article is about a type of web application. ...


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A distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation. ... Privacy has no definite boundaries and it has different meanings for different people. ... “Anonymous” redirects here. ... Confidentiality has been defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to have access and is one of the cornerstones of Information security. ... A court order is an official proclamation by a judge (or panel of judges) that defines the legal relationships between the parties before the court and requires or authorizes the carrying out of certain steps by one or more parties to a case. ... It has been suggested that Information sensitivity be merged into this article or section. ... Source is a term used in journalism to refer to any individual from whom information about a story has been received. ... A whistleblower is someone in an organization who witnesses behavior by members that is either contrary to the mission of the organization, or threatening to the public interest, and who decides to speak out publicly about it. ... Security measures taken to protect the Houses of Parliament in London, England. ... Statism (or Etatism) is a term that is used to describe: Specific instances of state intervention in personal, social or economic matters. ... A military dictatorship is a form of government wherein the political power resides with the military; it is similar but not identical to a stratocracy, a state ruled directly by the military. ... This article is about the general concept. ... For other uses, see Censor. ... In any debate, sometimes the more powerful opponent will try to silence the other rather than trying to defeat their arguments. ...

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Communication is a process that allows organisms to exchange information by several methods. ... Competition is the act of striving against others for the purpose of achieving gain, such as income, pride, amusement, or dominance. ... Journalism is a discipline of gathering, writing and reporting news, and more broadly it includes the process of editing and presenting the news articles. ... Journalism ethics and standards include principles of ethics and of good practice to address the specific challenges faced by professional journalists. ... Nasty little printers devils spew forth from the Hoe press in this Puck cartoon of Nov. ... Freedom of the Press (or Press Freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public press for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. ... World Press Freedom Day honours sacrifices around the world made for freedom of the press and reminds governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression that is enshrined under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ... UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... Reporters Without Borders, or RWB (French: Reporters sans frontières, Spanish: Reporteros Sin Fronteras, or RSF) is a French origin international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press, founded by its current general-secretary, Robert Menard. ... International Freedom of Expression eXchange. ... There are several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of freedom in the world and rank countries as being free, partly free, or unfree using various measures of freedom, including political rights, economic rights, and civil liberties. ... Media accountability is a phrase that refers to the quite general (especially western) belief that mass media has to be accountable in the public’s interest. ... Media responsibility is a term for the belief that mass media have a basic responsibility to help strengthen and support democratic processes. ... Media manipulation is an aspect of public relations in which partisans create an image or argument that favours their particular interests. ... For other uses, see Propaganda (disambiguation). ... Mass communication is the term used to describe the academic study of various means by which individuals and entities relay information to large segments of the population all at once through mass media. ... This article or section includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... SourceWatchs logo features a magnifying glass through which its name can be seen. ... A front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies, criminal organizations, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups, or corporations. ... Astroturfing is a term for formal public relations campaigns in politics and advertising that seek to create the impression of being spontaneous, grassroots behavior. ... This article is about the political effort. ... Popular press redirects here; note that the University of Wisconsin Press publishes under the imprint The Popular Press. Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... In economics, a market is transparent if much is known by many about what products and/or services are available at what price and where. ... Freedom of information can mean: whether a particular piece of information can be freely created, read, modified, copied and distributed; see free content (as well as free culture and free software) freedom to express ones opinions or ideas, generally, within a society; see freedom of speech the accessibility of... Secrecy is the practice of sharing information among a group of people, which can be as small as one person, while hiding it from others. ... Confidentiality has been defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to have access and is one of the cornerstones of Information security. ... A blacklist is a list or register of entities who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, or mobility. ... It has been suggested that Legal terrorism be merged into this article or section. ... Prior restraint is a legal term referring to a governments actions that prevent materials from being published. ... A gag order is an order, sometimes a legal order by a court or government, other times a private order by an employer or other institution, restricting information or comment from being made public. ... A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) is a form of litigation filed by a large organization or in some cases an individual plaintiff, to intimidate and silence a less powerful critic by so severely burdening them with the cost of a legal defense that they abandon their criticism. ... “Libel” redirects here. ... News Embargo is the restriction imposed on the publication of information or news someone has. ...

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