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Beyond Privacy

People, Practices, Politics

Bjarki Valtýsson editor Rikke Frank Jørgensen editor Sille Obelitz Søe editor Tanja Wiehn editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bristol University Press

Publishing:23rd Jan '25

£80.00

This title is due to be published on 23rd January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Beyond Privacy cover

Discussions around digital technologies, new media, platforms and information have long centred on the protection of personal data and privacy. This timely volume extends the conversation to address fundamental societal and structural issues from three perspectives: people, practices and politics.

Organised around an international collection of case studies, the book provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of the challenges of privacy in the digital sphere, from emerging regulatory programmes to surveillance capitalism and big tech companies.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this is a new and innovative perspective on our datafied societies that goes beyond privacy. It will be a key resource for scholars and students of communication and media studies, and science and technology studies.

“An imaginative book addressing how people’s expectations for privacy, practices and power and politics combine to set the boundary between public and private life in the digital world.” Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science

ISBN: 9781529239683

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

240 pages