CMN 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Relational Dialectics
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What is private information: information that is typically sensitive information that people usually don"t share freely with everyone. Relational dialectics: private disclosure can be about oneself, or other people as well. There is a difference between private disclosures and self disclosures. Private disclosers can be self disclosures but it doesn"t have to be, and vice versa for self disclosure. Presumes disclosures of private information are dialectical. People make choices about revealing or concealing based on criteria that are important to us. And the idea of ownership is very important: we think of our information as something that we own. Maxims (a rule) of cpm (petronio & durham, 2015) Rules we use to manage our private information: assumption maxims. Times when you reveal and times when you conceal. Our private information is something that we believe we own (we treat it just like property) We decide who gets to know it, and who doesn"t get to know it.
