Like any other grad student with sketchy dial-up service in the late nineties, my hours of work were stored on a local hard drive. The day it crashed, my ensuing panic was entirely focused on getting my draft thesis back. I didn’t care about my journals, budget, contacts, or my (failing) diet plan. But that …
Privacy is a common yet personalized notion. While seemingly contrary, it speaks to the value of privacy in both individual and group settings. For the individual, privacy is a universal process. For the group, privacy is culturally specific and used to regulate social interaction (Altman, 1977). Consider, as Altman does, an office environment. In Western society, a closed office door …
This site began as a place to gather my observations about privacy, a riff on my dissertation with the intention of contributing more broadly. Over time, privacy experts have emerged from all disciplines with all types of background and training. These ‘Posts’ will be more academic in nature, while other sections of the site will …
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