COMM 4602 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Internet Privacy, Privacy Law, Danah Boyd

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 4602
• Professor: Michael Audette- Longo

Document Summary

Reading #1: networked privacy: how teenagers negotiate context in social media by alice. While much attention is given to young people"s online privacy practices on sites like. Facebook, current theories of privacy fail to account for the ways in which social media alter practices of information-sharing and visibility. Traditional models of privacy are individualistic, but the realities of privacy reflect the location of individuals in contexts and networks. Social technologies enable people to share information about others, and further preclude individual control over privacy. Social media technologies follow technical models of privacy that presume individual information control. Authors argue that the dynamics of sites like facebook have forced teens to alter their conceptions of privacy to account for the networked nature of social media. Drawing on their practices and experiences, the authors offer a model of networked privacy to explain how privacy is achieved in networked publics. Every teenager wants privacy whether they admit it or not.