Beyond Privacy
People, Practices, Politics
Edited by Sille Obelitz Søe, Tanja Wiehn, Rikke Frank Jørgensen and Bjarki Valtýsson
Published
Jan 23, 2025Page count
204 pagesISBN
978-1529239683Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jan 23, 2025Page count
204 pagesISBN
978-1529239690Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jan 23, 2025Page count
204 pagesISBN
978-1529239690Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Beyond Privacy
Discussions around digital technologies, new media, platforms and information have long centred on the protection of personal data and privacy. This timely volume extends the conversation to address fundamental societal and structural issues from three perspectives: people, practices and politics.
Organised around an international collection of case studies, the book provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of the challenges of privacy in the digital sphere, from emerging regulatory programmes to surveillance capitalism and big tech companies.
Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this is a new and innovative perspective on our datafied societies that goes beyond privacy. It will be a key resource for scholars and students of communication and media studies, and science and technology studies.
"In order to fully understand what privacy can be, we need to understand the broader societal structures and its changing conditions, not least brought about by new technologies and datafication. This is what Beyond Privacy. People, Practices, Politics, is all about." Lexxion
“An imaginative book addressing how people’s expectations for privacy, practices and power and politics combine to set the boundary between public and private life in the digital world.” Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science
“As privacy becomes ever more contested and its usefulness as a term or aim is increasingly challenged, its value and role is tied to other concepts, other uses and specific contexts. By asking what privacy can (or can’t) do in those contexts, the collection engages in interdisciplinary debates that respond to the particular challenges that privacy concerns face today. The collection will be an interesting and useful read to anyone working in the areas of privacy, data, surveillance and connected sociotechnical ecosystems.” Garfield Benjamin, University of Cambridge
Sille Obelitz Søe is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen.
Tanja Wiehn is Assistant Professor at Roskilde University.
Rikke Frank Jørgensen is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
Bjarki Valtysson is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen.
1. Introduction – Sille Obelitz Søe, Tanja Wiehn, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Bjarki Valtysson
People
2. Me, Myself, and Everybody Else: The Implications of Hybrid-Identity for Systems, Privacy, and Secrecy – Sille Obelitz Søe and Jens-Erik Mai
3. Where Lies the Power to Define What's Private? Some Recent Shifts of the Boundary Between the Private and the Public – Beate Roessler
4. Our Bodies, Our Data, Our Choices: The Value of Privacy for Female* Self-Determination in a Post-Roe Era – Marjolein Lanzing
5. The Right to Silence: Intersections of Privacy and Silence in Networked Media - Taina Bucher
Practices
6. Atmospheres of Privacy – Karen Louise Grova Søilen
7. Lost in Digitalization: The Blurring Boundaries of Public Values and Private Interests – Bjarki Valtysson and Rikke Frank Jørgensen
8. Accounting for Impersonal Platform Media: A Challenge to Personal Privacy – Greg Elmer
Politics
9. Beyond Market Fixing: Privacy and the Critique of Political Economy – Paško Bilić
10. Synthetic Data: Servicing Privacy – Johan Lau Munkholm and Tanja Wiehn
11. Can Androids Dream of Electronic Surveillance Targets? Artificial Intelligence and the USSID-18 Defence – Simon Willmetts
12. Locating Privacy: Geolocational Privacy from a Republican Perspective – Bryce Clayton Newell
