Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this\u2014it is a matter of social justice.\xa0\nIn\xa0The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media\xa0(Yale UP, 2023),\xa0Alice E. Marwick offers a new way of understanding how privacy is jeopardized, particularly for marginalized and disadvantaged communities\u2014including immigrants, the poor, people of color, LGBTQ+ populations, and victims of online harassment.\nMarwick shows that there are\xa0few resources or regulations for preventing personal information from spreading on the internet. Through a new theory of \u201cnetworked privacy,\u201d she reveals how current legal and technological frameworks are woefully inadequate in addressing issues of privacy\u2014often by design. Drawing from interviews and focus groups encompassing a diverse group of Americans, Marwick shows that even heavy social media users care deeply about privacy and engage in extensive \u201cprivacy work\u201d to protect it. But people are up against the violation machine of the modern internet. Safeguarding privacy must happen at the collective level.\nJake Chanenson\xa0is a computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago. Broadly, Jake is interested in topics relating to HCI, privacy, and tech policy. Jake\u2019s\xa0work has been published in top venues such as ACM\u2019s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law