Privacy and Fame

How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms

By (author) Yuval Karniel, Amit Lavie-Dinur

Publication date:

09 December 2015

Length of book:

172 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498510776

Privacy and Fame: How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms uses Israel as a case study to examine the changes in perceptions, expectations, and actual behavior concerning privacy and privacy exposure to better understand the various ways individuals negotiate the boundaries between private and public self across different media platforms. Yuval Karniel and Amit Lavie-Dinur examine the relationship between social norms concerning privacy and the development of new media technologies, so as to examine how traditional conceptions of privacy have altered. It is through an analysis of new media technologies and the application of a unique privacy typology that this book aims to trace the evolution of the concept of privacy and to examine the different ways individuals engage in privacy exposure. This book treats privacy-loss as a feature of modern society that needs to be better understood, examined, and analyzed.

Chapter 1: Privacy and Popularity: An Introduction
Chapter 2: The Notion of Privacy
Chapter 3: Reality TV: Willingly Giving Up Our Privacy for Popularity on the “Big Screen”
Chapter 4: Getting the “Like”: Facebook
Chapter 5: Blogs: To be Popular… I’ll Write it All Down
Chapter 6: Popularity in Your Pocket: Your Private Self Exposed on Your Mobile Phone
Chapter 7: Handing Privacy Over: The Conclusion

What is privacy? It is not a binary, black or white entity. Current technologies seem to have taken away privacy, but are people not active participants in that transition? In a previous age, communication between people was considered to be private unless an active effort was made to make something public. Social networks have turned the tables: now all is public unless one makes an effort to make it private. This book uses Israel as a case study to explore and analyze these realities. Israel is—according to Karniel and Lavie-Dinur—a good test case because, having been founded (in 1948) as a 'collective' society, the 'start-up nation' has been at the forefront of the creation and adoption of technology. This has caused a shift toward more individualism. In addition, having been built on Jewish roots, Israel straddles the line between being observed by a 'higher authority' and Jewish law’s mandate for the preservation of one’s right to some privacy. As the authors write in chapter 1, 'The new world is a world without traditional conceptions of privacy,' and that is not going to change.... Summing Up: Recommended. With reservations. All readers.