| Abstrakt: |
With the rise of the Internet in general and social media in particular, concerns about privacy and publicity have come to the fore in everyday conversation, media narratives, as well as academic research. Much of this discussion begins with the assumption that privacy and publicity are opposites forming a zero-sum trade-off: the more publicity, the less privacy, and vice versa. In this paper we demonstrate that privacy and publicity instead have a dialectical relationship, where more of both can occur at the same time. We illustrate this theoretical point by way of many empirical examples that cannot be adequately captured by binary or continuum models of privacy and publicity. As such, this paper questions an underlying conceptual assumption that informs empirical work seeking to measure privacy and publicity, especially with respect to social media. We conclude with suggestions on how to better design studies to account for this complicated relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
