Sharing Is the New Private: Conceptualizing Sharing and Privacy Through Reader Comments to Online News
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Sharing, as a counterposition to privacy as a normative state, is under-theorized and under-conceptualized. Reader comments to online news accounts offer a space for public deliberation, and provide insight into how the users think and relate to the topic of a story. Leveraging this participatory space, we use semantic network analysis as a starting point to map the conceptualization of sharing as it relates to information online. In doing so, we attempt to further conversations about sharing as it relates to privacy, and demonstrate how these concepts might relate to one another, if at all. Publicness and privacy are frequently positioned in opposition, especially with respect to personal information that is created and made available through digital technologies and platforms. Conceptualized as a boundary management process, the accomplishment of privacy is envisioned within a continuum (Ford, 2011) or a dialectic (Altman, 1975; Jurgenson & Rey, 2012; Petronio, 2002). Such binary approaches to privacy have not advanced the understanding of how it is accomplished in the everyday however, and especially in the use of Web 2.0 communication technologies such as
Authors: Kelly Quinn, Renee M. Powers
Institution: University of Illinois Chicago
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2174525403