<i>Relational privacy</i>: Where the East and the West could meet

Ma, Yuanye

doi:10.1002/pra2.65

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“…Various scholars have pointed out that Western conceptions of privacy tend to focus on individual autonomy and do not always consider the social context and relational aspect of privacy (Bannerman, 2019; Ma, 2019; Reviglio & Alunge, 2020). Privacy has been conceptualized by Crabtree et al (2017) to be fundamentally about relationship management practices: “It is a concern with people and the impact the networked world might have on their interpersonal affairs” (p. 484).…”

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“Someone Else Is Behind The Screen”: Visibility, Privacy, and Trust on Geosocial Networking Apps in India

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Birnholtz

Rawat

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Social Media + Society

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Queer people increasingly use geosocial networking apps (GSNAs), such as Grindr and Blued, to find connections. These apps play a particularly important role in countries such as India, where being visibly queer can carry social stigma, and same-sex intercourse was criminalized until 2018. A key challenge on these apps is self-disclosing enough information to appear authentic and build trust with other users, without drawing unwanted attention, stigma, and safety threats. Careful consideration of when to share information and what to share is critical, but we have a limited understanding of how users make these decisions. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 36 queer men in 4 smaller urban environments in and near the state of Maharashtra, India, we sought to understand how queer men think about their visibility while using GSNAs. We find that they are primarily concerned with the visibility of the actual GSNA on their phone, especially given many users in this context live with their families and assumptions common in the West, such as one person per device, may not hold. They also worry about the information they disclose on the app itself given this visibility can lead to dangerous situations. We detail how participants try to resolve the tensions around visibility and discuss our findings in relation to conceptualizations of privacy and signaling theory. We conclude with practical guidelines related to the use of these apps in the Indian context.

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“Someone Else Is Behind The Screen”: Visibility, Privacy, and Trust on Geosocial Networking Apps in India

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“…Seeing privacy as an interpersonal matter can be illustrated in relation to Confucian role ethics traditions of Chinese culture (Ma, 2019). Confucian role ethics expects the person to behave differently depending on the specific context and the person's reflections.…”

Section: The Individual Versus the Institutionmentioning

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Relatedness and compatibility: The concept of privacy in Mandarin Chinese and American English corpora

Ma¹

2022

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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This study investigates how privacy as an ethical concept exists in two languages: Mandarin Chinese and American English. The exploration relies on two genres of corpora from 10 years: social media posts and news articles, 2010–2019. A mixed‐methods approach combining structural topic modeling (STM) and human interpretation were used to work with the data. Findings show various privacy‐related topics across the two languages. Moreover, some of these different topics revealed fundamental incompatibilities for understanding privacy across these two languages. In other words, some of the variations of topics do not just reflect contextual differences; they reveal how the two languages value privacy in different ways that can relate back to the society's ethical tradition. This study is one of the first empirically grounded intercultural explorations of the concept of privacy. It has shown that natural language is promising to operationalize intercultural and comparative privacy research, and it provides an examination of the concept as it is understood in these two languages.

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“…IIE is a field of research where “moral questions of the infosphere are reflected in a comparative manner on the basis of different cultural traditions” (McDougall, 2005, p.183). Specifically, IIE finds problems in the typical individualistic conception of the person (2008), which many times implicitly serve as foundations for the conceptualization of information related concepts, like privacy (Cohen, 2013; Ma, 2019). IIE finds its motivation in this concern of how information ethics studies rely solely on Western philosophical and ethical traditions, where the non‐Western is largely ignored.…”

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Understanding information: Adding a non‐individualistic lens

2020

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The individualistic lens refers to the understanding of problematic information as something that is clearly identifiable, with objective criteria of measurement. This article argues for adding a non‐individualistic lens for understanding information. The necessity for adding a non‐individualistic lens grows from that the existing individualistic lens appears inadequate to make sense of information phenomenon, in particular when it comes to understanding problematic information. Non‐individualistic is proposed as a complementary perspective, which needs to be further developed conceptually. To begin such development, this article directs information professionals' attention to the promising concept of information ecology. More specifically, this article pulls resources from philosophy of information (Floridi's infosphere) and information ethics (Capurro's Angeletics) to illustrate existing conceptualizations of information ecology. Information ecology appears to align with this sociotechnical view that information researchers have started to develop in the most recent years, though arguably information ecology may have an even broader scope. Lastly, this article also points out that the conceptualization of information ecology needs to be aware of, and cautious of the philosophical assumption that is relied on for understanding information.

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Relational privacy: Where the East and the West could meet

Cited by 15 publications

References 41 publications

“Someone Else Is Behind The Screen”: Visibility, Privacy, and Trust on Geosocial Networking Apps in India

“Someone Else Is Behind The Screen”: Visibility, Privacy, and Trust on Geosocial Networking Apps in India

Relatedness and compatibility: The concept of privacy in Mandarin Chinese and American English corpora

Understanding information: Adding a non‐individualistic lens

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