Networked privacy: How teenagers negotiate context in social media. (November 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Marwick, Alice E; boyd, danah
• Other Names: Lincoln Siân guest-editor.; Robards Brady guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: New media & society. Volume 16:Number 7(2014:Nov.)
• Page Start: 1051
• Page End: 1067
• Publication Date: 2014-11
• Subjects: Context collapse -- Facebook -- privacy -- social media -- social network sites -- teenagers; Mass media -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Mass media and culture -- Periodicals; Information technology -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Internet -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 302.2305
• DOI: 10.1177/1461444814543995
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1461-4448

Abstract

While much attention is given to young people's online privacy practices on sites like Facebook, current theories of privacy fail to account for the ways in which social media alter practices of information-sharing and visibility. Traditional models of privacy are individualistic, but the realities of privacy reflect the location of individuals in contexts and networks. The affordances of social technologies, which enable people to share information about others, further preclude individual control over privacy. Despite this, social media technologies primarily follow technical models of privacy that presume individual information control. We argue that the dynamics of sites like Facebook have forced teens to alter their conceptions of privacy to account for the networked nature of social media. Drawing on their practices and experiences, we offer a model of networked privacy to explain how privacy is achieved in networked publics.