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Repacking ‘privacy’ for a networked world

Crabtree, Andy; Tolmie, Peter; Knight, Will

Authors

Peter Tolmie

Will Knight



Abstract

In 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.

Citation

Crabtree, A., Tolmie, P., & Knight, W. (2017). Repacking ‘privacy’ for a networked world. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 26(4-6), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9276-y

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 20, 2017
Online Publication Date May 29, 2017
Publication Date Dec 31, 2017
Deposit Date May 12, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Print ISSN 0925-9724
Electronic ISSN 1573-7551
Publisher Springer Verlag
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 26
Issue 4-6
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9276-y
Keywords Privacy, digital economy, crisis in trust, domestic digital privacy practices, ethnomethodology
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/902444
Publisher URL https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10606-017-9276-y

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