Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts

2 Apr 2012

The electronic panopticon....privacy and our lives online, part two

In my last post, I started sounding forth on the messy, complicated, work in progress issue of privacy and our lives online.  I found that there's a whole lotta, quite valid, reasons as to why we want privacy online and that it seems, we're still figuring out what are the boundaries.  For a big finish, I drew on the work of Foucault and the 'panopticon' effect of the constant surveillance that social media suggests and how that can affect us.  In this final post on privacy, I want to look at our right to privacy, how might we begin to define privacy for social media and what the implications can be for PR and public communications practice.