Transparency and surveillance as sociotechnical accountability : a house of mirrors Surveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly pervasive activities in neoliberal societies. Surveillance is taken up as a means to achieving security and efficiency; transparency is seen as a mechanism for ensuring compliance or promoting informed consumerism and informed citizenship. Indeed transparency is often seen as the antidote to the threats and fears of surveillance. This book adopts a novel approach in examining surveillance practices and transparency practices together as parallel systems of accountability. It presents the house of mirrors as a new framework for understanding surveillance and transparency practices instrumented with information technology. The volume centers around five case studies: Campaign Finance Disclosure Secure Flight American Red Cross Google and Facebook. A series of themed chapters draw on the material and provide cross case analysis. The volume ends with a chapter on policy implications. This volume was produced as part of a National Science Foundation funded project bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars