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Courts On Screen: E-Government and the Increase of Judicial Transparency

Courts On Screen: E-Government and the Increase of Judicial Transparency
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Author(s): Roberto Fragale Filho (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil & Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 15
Source title: E-Governance and Civic Engagement: Factors and Determinants of E-Democracy
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Aroon Manoharan (Kent State University, USA)and Marc Holzer (Rutgers University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-083-5.ch006

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Abstract

Opacity may be the key word to describe how judicial work is done. Yet there has been a plea for change, as transparency has been demanded as a rule for governmental issues, judicial work included. The challenge lies in getting there, and e-government may be today a popular trend that will get us there. Indeed, media convergence, the use of social media, and live broadcasting on the web repaginate an old debate on the presence of cameras in the courtrooms and places it on the e-government level. Rephrased as courts on screen, the debate challenges the secrecy of judicial deliberations and makes a call for sunshine in the courtroom. The Brazilian experience of TV Justiça and its recent arrival on YouTube and on Twitter has pushed further the debate over the impact of courts’ sessions live broadcasting and is here examined as a case study for the increase of judicial transparency.

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