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Secrecy and Society
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ISSN (Online) 2377-6188
Published by San José State University

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Giants: The Global Power Elite
- Authors: Susan Maret
  PubDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:42:22 PST
Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain
- Authors: Diana Clark Gill
  PubDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:42:14 PST
Matthew Potolsky’s The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics
of Government Secrecy
- Authors: Nolan Higdon
  Abstract: Matthew Potolsky’s brilliantly woven The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy offers a powerful and engaging discussion of national security and government secrecy. His findings concerning the influence artists have on citizens’ perception of national security is a major contribution to the field. It highlights Americans false sense of awareness regarding government secrecy, that in itself enables government secrecy. Potolsky has made a massive contribution to the study of government secrecy that is sure to spark future research concerning the intersection of national security and aesthetics.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:42:08 PST
Secrecy in U.S. National Security: Why a Paradigm Shift Is Needed
- Authors: Steven Aftergood
  PubDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:42:02 PST
State Secrecy: A Literature Review
- Authors: Stephane Lefebvre
  Abstract: What is secrecy' What is a state secret' Which state secrets deserve protection from disclosures' How are state secrets protected from disclosure' In this review, I use these questions as an organizing framework to review the richness of a very disparate, largely US-centric, but also multidisciplinary literature. In doing so, I highlight the social nature of secrecy - that it is a social construct with social effects and consequences - and the need for further research to unveil those rationalities that specific discourses on state secrecy put forward to legitimize the nondisclosure of state secrets.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:41:56 PST
“Pick a Card, Any Card”: Learning to Deceive and Conceal
– with Care
- Authors: Brian Rappert
  Abstract: Because of the asymmetries in knowledge regarding the underlying hidden mechanisms as well as because of the importance of intentional deception, entertainment magic is often presented as an exercise in power, manipulation, and control. This article challenges such portrayals and through doing so common presumptions about how secrets are kept. It does so through recounting the experiences of the author as a beginner learning a craft. Regard for the choices and tensions associated with the accomplishment of mutually recognized deception in entertainment magic are marshalled to consider how it involves ‘reciprocal action’ between the audience and the performer. Attending to forms of inter-relation and coordination been all those present will be used to appreciate how intentional concealment and deception can be situationally and jointly accomplished. The stakes and possibilities of that accomplishment will be explored by re-imagining magic as a practice of care.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:41:48 PST
Questions of Professional Practice and Reporting on State Secrets: Glenn
Greenwald and the NSA Leaks
- Authors: Rebecca M. Rice
  Abstract: In 2013, journalist Glenn Greenwald met with Edward Snowden, who leaked the most documents in the history of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Greenwald reported on these documents and proved that the NSA spied on millions of American citizens. However, he also provided commentary about the state of journalism and argued that journalists are often complicit in the keeping of state secrets. Using a rhetorical analysis of Greenwald's writings in The Guardian and his later book, this essay argues that journalists function as a technical audience that debates professional standards for leaking secrets. In Greenwald's case, journalists were involved in the "re-secreting" of NSA behavior as they focused their coverage on Greenwald. This essay finds that secrets are communicatively revealed and concealed using different rhetorical appeals. In an age of political hostility toward journalists, the success of leak journalism in starting public discussion has significance for democratic deliberation.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:41:39 PST
The Rhetorical Devices of the Keepers of State Secrets
- Authors: Stephane Lefebvre
  Abstract: This article examines a set of rhetorical devices forming a linguistic practice that are used repeatedly by secret keepers in the United States and the United Kingdom when legally and popularly arguing against the disclosure of state secrets. Each of these devices (using lists, using the future conditional, arguing from ignorance and authority, arguing from consequences, and arguing by analogy) play a role in shaping our social understanding of state secrecy. More importantly, these devices provide secret keepers a means by which to assert their knowledge and expertise, and to legitimize, if judges agree with them, the nondisclosure of state secrets. Once they have been created and have become commonly known to secret keepers, and validated by the judiciary through court precedents, they can be reproduced and passed on from a generation to the next. This article documents the use of these devices and their interrelationships.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:41:31 PST
Teaching Trade Secret Management with Threshold Concepts
- Authors: Haakon Thue Lie et al.
  Abstract: Trade secret management (TSM is an emerging field of research. Teaching trade secret management requires the inclusion of several challenging topics, such as how firms use secrets in open innovation and collaboration. The threshold concepts framework is an educational lens well suited for teaching subjects such as TSM that are transformative and troublesome. We identify four such areas in trade secret management and discuss how threshold concepts can be a useful framework for teaching. We then present an outline of a curriculum suited for master’s programs and training of intellectual property (IP) managers. Our main contribution is to fields of management and educational sciences, as well as those of innovation studies and jurisprudence.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:41:20 PST
Today’s Fake News is Tomorrow’s Fake History: How US History Textbooks
Mirror Corporate News Media Narratives
- Authors: Nolan Higdon et al.
  Abstract: The main thrust of this study is to assess how the systematic biases found in mass media journalism affect the writing of history textbooks. There has been little attention paid to how the dissemination of select news information regarding the recent past, particularly from the 1990s through the War on Terror, influences the ways in which US history is taught in schools. This study employs a critical-historical lens with a media ecology framework to compare Project Censored’s annual list of censored and under-reported stories to the leading and most adopted high school and college US history textbooks. The findings reveal that historical narratives largely mirror corporate media reporting, while countervailing investigative journalism is often missing from the textbooks. This study demonstrates the need for critical media literacy inside the pedagogy of history education and teacher training programs in the US.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:41:10 PST
Revealing Challenges of Teaching Secrecy
- Authors: Jack Z. Bratich et al.
  Abstract: All teaching has something to do with transmission of hidden knowledge, secrecy, and revelation. But the teaching of secrecy itself faces particular challenges. Drawing on the authors’ experiences teaching secrecy-themed seminars to first-year university students, this paper pinpoints four such challenges: how to determine the range of phenomena to cover in a short course, how to prevent excessive interpretation of secrets, how to encourage students to take a fun topic with seriousness, and how to engage students in their own practices of secrecy. In laying out these challenges, we aim to contribute to a secrecy literacy: a needed competency so people can better evaluate efforts to keep secrets and appreciate the need for certain types of secrets while also being able to critique problematic forms. This secrecy literacy can provide a foundation for the skills needed to better manage secrecy in our professional and everyday lives.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:40:59 PST
Keeping Secrets from Ourselves: Understanding Self-deception Through
Theory, Evidence and Application
- Authors: Mathew J. Creighton
  Abstract: Self-deception is a difficult concept to share with students. Although few students find it implausible that they are capable of keeping secrets from themselves, the social theory, application, and practical demonstration of self-deception is far from straightforward. This work offers a three-step approach to teach a theoretically-grounded, evidence-based, and application-reinforced understanding of self-deception. Rooted in work on identity by Mead (1934), the approach outlined here engages with interdisciplinary case studies derived from social psychology (Greenwald, McGhee and Schwartz 1998) and behavioral economics (Ariely 2012). The theory and case studies build toward a peer evaluation that offers students a concrete demonstration of self-deception with implications at the individual- and group-level.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:40:50 PST
Concealing in the Public Interest, or Why We Must Teach Secrecy
- Authors: Susan Maret
  Abstract: Secrecy as the intentional or unintentional concealment of information is the subject of investigation within the humanities, social sciences, journalism, law and legal studies. However, the subject it is not widely taught as a distinct social problem within higher education. In this article, I report personal experience with developing and teaching a graduate level course on a particular type of secrecy, government secrecy, at the School of Information, San Jose State University. This article includes discussion on selecting course materials, creating assignments, and navigating controversial histories. This article also sets the stage to this special issue of Secrecy and Society on the subject of teaching secrecy.
  PubDate: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:40:44 PST