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RESEARCH PRODUCT
The Politics of Privacy - a Useful Tautology
Jakub NowakJohanna MöllerJudith MöllerSigrid Kannengießersubject
Privatsphärepolitical factorspolitische FaktorenKommunikationsforschungagency; datafication; media practicesMedienkulturInternet privacymedia practicesData security050801 communication & media studiesMedia Politics Information Politics Media LawprivacyMedienpolitik Informationspolitik Medienrechtddc:070lcsh:Communication. Mass mediaPolitics0508 media and communications050602 political science & public administrationSociologydata securitydataficationNews media journalism publishingcommunication researchCommodificationDataficationbusiness.industryCommunication05 social sciencesTautology (grammar)data exchangelcsh:P87-960506 political scienceDatenaustauschagencymedia culturePublizistische Medien JournalismusVerlagswesenpoliticsbusinessDatensicherheitdescription
While communication and media studies tend to define privacy with reference to data security, current processes of datafication and commodification substantially transform ways of how people act in increasingly dense communicative networks. This begs for advancing research on the flow of individual and organizational information considering its relational, contextual and, in consequence, political dimensions. Privacy, understood as the control over the flow of individual or group information in relation to communicative actions of others, frames the articles assembled in this thematic issue. These contributions focus on theoretical challenges of contemporary communication and media privacy research as well as on structural privacy conditions and people’s mundane communicative practices underlining inherent political aspect. They highlight how particular acts of doing privacy are grounded in citizen agency realized in datafied environments. Overall, this collection of articles unfolds the concept of ‘Politics of Privacy’ in diverse ways, contributing to an emerging body of communication and media research.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 |