Modern Privacy [electronic resource] : Shifting Boundaries, New Forms /
Blatterer, Harry.author.
Johnson, Pauline.author.
Markus, Maria R.author.
Modern Privacies addresses emergent transformations of privacy in western societies from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. It examines social and cultural trends in new media, feminism, law, work and intimacy which indicate that our perceptions, evaluations and enactments of privacy in constant flux.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 Privacy, Secrecy, Intimacy, Human Bonds, Utopia-and Other Collateral Casualties of Liquid Modernity; 2 When Privacy Goes Public: New Media and the Transformation of the Culture of Confession; 3 Images of Intimacy in Feminist Discussions over Private/Public Boundaries; 4 Privacy and Law; 5 Social Networking, Privacy, and the Pursuit of Visibility; 6 Can Solitude be Recaptured for the Sake of Intimacy?; 7 The Erotic Imaginary, Autonomy, and Modernity; 8 What's Wrong with Therapy Culture?; 9 Privacy and Work
10 Narcissism and the Emergence of the Network SocietyConclusion: Futures of Modern Privacy; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modern Privacies addresses emergent transformations of privacy in western societies from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. It examines social and cultural trends in new media, feminism, law, work and intimacy which indicate that our perceptions, evaluations and enactments of privacy in constant flux.
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