The private is political : networked privacy and social media

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Title:

The private is political : networked privacy and social media

Author:

Marwick, Alice Emily. author.

ISBN:

9780300229622

Personal Author:

Marwick, Alice Emily. author.

Physical Description:

376 pages ; 25 cm

General Note:

Source of cataloging data: WCP

Abstract:

"Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this -- it is a matter of social justice. Alice E. Marwick offers a new way of understanding how privacy is jeopardized, particularly for marginalized and disadvantaged communities -- including immigrants, the poor, people of color, LGBTQ+ populations, and victims of online harassment. Marwick shows that few resources or regulations exist for preventing personal information from spreading on the internet. Through a new theory of "networked privacy," she reveals how current legal and technological frameworks are woefully inadequate in addressing issues of privacy -- often by design. Drawing from interviews and focus groups encompassing a diverse group of Americans, Marwick shows that even heavy social media users care deeply about privacy and engage in extensive "privacy work" to protect it. But people are up against the violation machine of the modern internet. Safeguarding privacy must happen at the collective level." -- Jacket flap.

Contents:

The private is political -- The violation machine: networked privacy in the digital age -- Privacy work -- Gendered privacy: publicity, harassment, and abuse -- Privacy on the margins: networked privacy and socioeconomic status -- Beyond the binary: how LGBTQ+ people negotiate networked privacy -- Public myths, private networks: the implications of networked privacy -- Appendix: Research methods.

Subject Term:

Online social networks -- Security measures.

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A compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality

Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this--it is a matter of social justice. Alice E. Marwick offers a new way of understanding how privacy is jeopardized, particularly for marginalized and disadvantaged communities--including immigrants, the poor, people of color, LGBTQ+ populations, and victims of online harassment.

Marwick shows that few resources or regulations for preventing personal information from spreading on the internet. Through a new theory of "networked privacy," she reveals how current legal and technological frameworks are woefully inadequate in addressing issues of privacy--often by design. Drawing from interviews and focus groups encompassing a diverse group of Americans, Marwick shows that even heavy social media users care deeply about privacy and engage in extensive "privacy work" to protect it. But people are up against the violation machine of the modern internet. Safeguarding privacy must happen at the collective level.

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This book aims to shift discussion of privacy and information security from the realm of personal and individual responsibility to the dependence of privacy on social networks and political action. It will enrich every reader's understanding of privacy and the social conventions that misleadingly treat privacy as each individual's own responsibility while simultaneously entwining and monetizing their personal information in unavoidable networks. Marwick (Univ. of North Carolina) makes excellent use of feminist and other social analyses in documenting how social networks and conventions incorporate inequitable power relations, which disadvantage and jeopardize many marginalized demographics. The analyses and arguments are well researched, documented, and above all cogently and convincingly presented. This work will be a point of reference for all subsequent scholarly, journalistic, and political discussions of privacy and the dangers inappropriately mined and shared personal information pose. The clear presentation of research also makes it an appropriate introduction to the topics covered. It should be in every library collection. Summing Up: Essential. All readership levels. --David Bantz, University of Alaska

1 The Private Is Political	1
2 The Violation Machine: Networked Privacy in the Digital Age	27
3 Privacy Work	63
4 Gendered Privacy: Publicity, Harassment, and Abuse	99
5 Privacy on the Margins: Networked Privacy and Socioeconomic Status	138
6 Beyond the Binary: How LGBTQ+ People Negotiate Networked Privacy	187
7 Public Myths, Private Networks: The Implications of Networked Privacy	228
Acknowledgments	251
Appendix: Research Methods	255
Notes	265
Bibliography	319
Index	369

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