Against the Hypothesis of the End of Privacy [electronic resource] : An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Social Media / by Paola Tubaro, Antonio A Casilli, Yasaman Sarabi.
By: Tubaro, Paola [author.].
Contributor(s): Casilli, Antonio A [author.] | Sarabi, Yasaman [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: SpringerBriefs in Digital Spaces: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014Description: IX, 57 p. 8 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783319024561.Subject(s): Social sciences | Computer Communication Networks | Computer simulation | Mass media | Social Sciences | Media Research | Simulation and Modeling | Media Management | Communication Studies | Computer Communication Networks | Organizational Studies, Economic SociologyDDC classification: 302.23 Online resources: Click here to access online Part I: Why Privacy is not over yet: Conflicting Attitudes of Users, companies and States -- Part II: Modeling Privacy: Online Social Structures and Data Architectures -- Part III: Discussion and Conclusions.
Several prominent public voices have advanced the hypothesis that networked communications erode the value of privacy in favor of a transparent connected existence. Especially younger generations are often described as prone to live "open digital lives". This hypothesis has raised considerable controversy, polarizing the reaction of its critics as well as of its partisans. But how likely is the "end of privacy"? Under which conditions might this scenario come to be? What are the business and policy implications? How to ethically assess risks and opportunities? To shed light on the co-evolution and mutual dependencies of networked structures and individual and collective strategies towards privacy, this book innovatively uses cutting-edge methods in computational social sciences to study the formation and maintenance of online social networks. The findings confound common arguments and clearly indicate that Internet and social media do not necessarily entail the end of privacy. Publicity is not "the new norm": quite to the contrary, the book makes the case that privacy is a resilient social force, resulting from a set of interconnected behaviors of Internet users.
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