Comm 616 Differentiating Public and Private Space Differentiating

Comm 616 Differentiating Public and Private Space

Differentiating Public and Private Space Arnett defines differentiation of public and private space as identification of two spheres of life that shape and inform each other by maintaining their separate identities. The key to this differentiation is the reclaiming of a natural dialectic of accountability where one can call one dimension of communicative life into question by the other, texturing a clear understanding of one's public and private positions (Arnett et al. , 2009).

Differentiating Public and Private Space • Living in an age of technological advances such as social media and reality television, public and private space seem inevitable. • Websites such as Facebook, My. Space, or Twitter are platforms many people use in order to express their concerns over various issues or share things they deem fun and exciting. • We also see examples of when people have posted private comments or pictures on social media which caused public scrutiny. The use of public space allows diverse voices who are likely to judge. • The text mentions private decision making involves engaging different voices and, as a public, deciding what is appropriate and inappropriate as we engage the public space of the Internet (Arnett et al. , 2009).

Is there really such a thing as public and/or private?

When public and private space collide • 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 (Marwick, A. & Boyd, D. , 2014).

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