Network Publicy Governance: On Privacy And The Informational Self

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The information age has brought about a growing conflict between proponents of a data-driven society on the one side and demands for protection of individual freedom, autonomy, and dignity by means of privacy on the other. The causes of this conflict are rooted in the modern Western opposition of individual and society and a self-understanding of the human as an autonomous rational subject with an inalienable right to informational self-determination. Andréa Belliger and David J. Krieger propose a theory of information as a common good and redefine the individual as an informational self who exists in networks made up of both humans and nonhumans. Privacy is replaced by publicy and issues of data use and data protection are described in terms of governance instead of government. Cover Half Title Authors Title Copyright Table of Contents Introduction 1. Information 1.1 The Question of Technology 1.2 The Difference a Stone Makes 1.3 Technical Mediation 1.4 Interfaces, Links, Associations 1.5 What is Information? 1.6 Information and Networks 2. The Privacy Paradox 2.1 Misuse of Personal Information 2.2 Surveillance 2.3 Secrecy 2.4 Targeting 2.5 Gaming the System 2.6 Political Profiling 2.7 The Privacy Paradox 3. Publicy 3.1 Publicy not Privacy is the Default Condition 3.2 Affordances and the Socio-Technical Ensemble 3.3 Participatory Culture 3.4 The Socio-Sphere 3.5 Reconstructing Neoinstitutionalism 3.6 Network Norms 4. Governance 4.1 Sources of Governance Theory 4.2 Resource Governance 4.3 Reconstructing Governance Theory 4.4 Governance by Design Conclusion Literature