The Politics of Privacy—A Useful Tautology

Johanna E. Möller, Jakub Nowak, Sigrid Kannengießer and Judith E. Möller
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Johanna E. Möller: Department of Communication, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Jakub Nowak: Institute of Social Communication and Media Studies, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland
Sigrid Kannengießer: Center for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, Germany
Judith E. Möller: Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Media and Communication, 2020, vol. 8, issue 2, 232-236

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: agency; datafication; data security; media practices; politics; privacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.17645/mac.v8i2.3373

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