Modern privacy
Subtitle: shifting boundaries, new forms
By: edited by Harry Blatterer, Pauline Johnson and Maria R. Markus
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780230246119
Subjects: Social psychology; Privacy
Description: Where do private lives end and public lives begin? Personal confessions in the public media, the posting of personal data on Facebook, the rise of 'therapy culture', the blurring between work and private life - these are just some of the issues discussed and analyzed in Modern Privacy. Here, sociologists, philosophers, historians and legal scholars from the US, Europe and Australia reflect on the dilemma of privacy with a focus on contemporary trends. Rather than giving a merely descriptive account, the volume evaluates the conditions of privacy - and so of our autonomy - which are most conducive to individual and collective flourishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.