Repacking ‘Privacy’ for a Networked World

dc.contributor.authorCrabtree, Andy
dc.contributor.authorTolmie, Peter
dc.contributor.authorKnight, Will
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-30T12:02:09Z
dc.date.available2017-05-30T12:02:09Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we examine the notion of privacy as promoted in the digital economy and how it has been taken up as a design challenge in the fields of CSCW, HCI and Ubiquitous Computing. Against these prevalent views we present an ethnomethodological study of digital privacy practices in 20 homes in the UK and France, concentrating in particular upon people’s use of passwords, their management of digital content, and the controls they exercise over the extent to which the online world at large can penetrate their everyday lives. In explicating digital privacy practices in the home we find an abiding methodological concern amongst members to manage the potential ‘attack surface’ of the digital on everyday life occasioned by interaction in and with the networked world. We also find, as a feature of this methodological preoccupation, that privacy dissolves into a heterogeneous array of relationship management practices. Accordingly we propose that ‘privacy’ has little utility as a focus for design, and suggest instead that a more productive way forward would be to concentrate on supporting people’s evident interest in managing their relationships in and with the networked world.
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10606-017-9276-y
dc.identifier.pissnISSN 0925-9724
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer, London
dc.relation.ispartofComputer Supported Cooperative Work 26(4-5)- ECSCW 2017: Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
dc.relation.ispartofseriesECSCW
dc.subjectPrivacy
dc.subjectDigital economy
dc.subjectCrisis in trust
dc.subjectDomestic digital privacy practices
dc.subjectEthnomethodology
dc.titleRepacking ‘Privacy’ for a Networked World
dc.typeText/Conference Paper
gi.conference.date28 August - 1 September 2017
gi.conference.locationSheffield, UK
gi.conference.sessiontitleLong Papers

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