Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America

Nelson, Deborah

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“…This database of 117 recording features cases of an intervener interfering in someone else's intimate relationship and thus infringing on their private space (Brown and Levinson 1987) as conventionally understood in US public settings (see, for example, Nelson 2002). The particular examples examined have been selected due to the clarity of metapragmatic voicing (i.e., the metapragmatic articulation of moral principles) that can be observed in the interactions.…”

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A study into politeness strategies and politeness markers in Jordanian print advertisements as persuasive tools

Reiter

Kádár

2017

Journal of Politeness Research

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Abstract:In this study we offer a socio-pragmatic examination of instances of what is generally known in social psychology as "bystander intervention," i.e., the social action by which a bystander steps in and attempts to prevent a wrongdoer from abusing a victim. We explore the relationship between (im)politeness and participants' perceptions and understandings of moral principles as evidenced by their metacommunicative voicing. Our analysis concentrates on cases of bystander intervention in the US by analyzing data drawn from a reality show. Bystander intervention is a noteworthy phenomenon to examine for, at least, two reasons. First, it is a type of aggressive social action as it poses an uninvited and open challenge to the wrongdoer in public. Second, bystander intervention challenges conventional behavioural norms. It aims to reinstate what the intervener regards as morally appropriate behaviour. This study aims to contribute to current research on (im)politeness by offering a yet unexplored dimension: that of the interface between metapragmatics, (im)politeness and (im)morality in the interactional arena of bystander intervention.

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A study into politeness strategies and politeness markers in Jordanian print advertisements as persuasive tools

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Kádár

2017

Journal of Politeness Research

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“…According to literary scholar Deborah Nelson, the Cold War not only generated the privacy crisis, but provided the complex relationship between public and private in the modern era with its own language, "and a narrative to the dilemma of privacy in modernity more generally" (Nelson, 2002: xii). 5 The influential metaphor of containment 3 John Archer locates the emergence of a "culture of retirement" in the English middle class of the eighteenth century, which substantially influenced the ideological paradigm of suburbanization in the following centuries (Archer, 2005: xvi).…”

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“…A critical engagement with modernity exposed the boundaries between private and public as "unstable in both mass democracies as well as totalitarian regimes" (Nelson, 2002: xii). 8 The notion that totalitarian governments are characterized particularly by their control and invasion of privacy was widely accepted in the 1950s.…”

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“…Nevertheless, the emphasis on privacy as a protected and central feature of a democratic society functioned as an important strategy to differentiate the United States from oppressive communist states. At the same time, however, numerous public discourses depicted privacy not only as a symbol of freedom, autonomy, and selfdefinition, but also framed it in terms of isolation, loneliness, control, and routine (Nelson, 2002: xiii). 2 Vigilant neighbors observed each other, deviant behavior and the retreat into the private sphere were considered suspicious.…”

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Picture Windows: Architecture of Privacy and Surveillance*

Harju¹

2017

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This essay, "Picture Windows: Architecture of Privacy and Surveillance," explores how privacy became a public concern within the context of U.S. suburbanization during the 1950s. Suburban spaces and architecture represent changed notions of privacy, publicity, property and selfhood that correspond to broader ideological and historical transformations. Techniques, functions, and forms of privacy in American suburbs are examined against the background of prevalent fears and sensibilities during the early phase of the Cold War, in order to analyze how privacy is imagined, staged, negotiated, instrumentalized and made visible in the cultural, social, and political context of suburbanization.Keywords: architecture, postwar America, privacy crisis, suburbia, surveillance. JANELAS PANORÂMICAS: ARQUITETURA DE PRIVACIDADE E VIGILÂNCIAResumo: O presente ensaio "Janelas panorâmicas: arquitetura de privacidade e vigilância" explora a forma como a privacidade se tornou uma preocupação pública no contexto da suburbanização norte-americana durante a década de 1950. Os espaços e a arquitetura suburbanos representam noções alteradas de privacidade, publicidade, propriedade e individualidade que correspondem a transformações ideológicas e históricas alargadas. Examinam-se técnicas, funções e formas de privacidade nos subúrbios norte-americanos no contexto dos receios e sensibilidades prevalecentes na fase inicial da Guerra Fria, procurando analisar de que modo a privacidade é imaginada, encenada, negociada, instrumentalizada e tornada visível no enquadramento cultural, social e político da suburbanização. Palavras-chave:América do pós-guerra, arquitetura, crise de privacidade, subúrbios, vigilância.

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“…64 Grasping the extent to which privacy is protected, or not, requires plumbing cultural attitudes about celebrity, exposure, and shame. 65 All nations had to deal with the problems of turning country dwellers into city folk, encouraging them to act with consideration for their newfound olfactory, auditory, and epidemiological proximity to others. But the United States was confronted with another dimension of this problem since many of those being metropolitanized were also immigrants from abroad.…”

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Beyond Weak and Strong: Rethinking the State in Comparative Policy History

Baldwin

2005

J. Policy Hist.

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Most public problems can be approached in many ways. Urban noise, the honking of car horns, for example, could be tackled by building effective mass transit and discouraging automobile use, by forbidding the use of horns within city limits and fining violators, by encouraging harmonious social circumstances, or at least stress-reduction education programs, to make drivers less aggressive, by developing horns that target sound waves only at offending motorists, or by encouraging everyone to wear noise-reduction earphones. The problem of sexually transmitted diseases can be solved by encouraging chastity and fidelity as virtues, by strictly criminalizing transmission, or by prescribing antibiotics after the fact. Such varying approaches are qualitatively different. They do not just reflect distinct degrees of statutory intervention. States that adopt divergent solutions may, in a similar fashion, be fundamentally different from one another, not just stronger or weaker versions of an abstract ideal of public authority.

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Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America

Cited by 63 publications

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A study into politeness strategies and politeness markers in Jordanian print advertisements as persuasive tools

A study into politeness strategies and politeness markers in Jordanian print advertisements as persuasive tools

Picture Windows: Architecture of Privacy and Surveillance*

Beyond Weak and Strong: Rethinking the State in Comparative Policy History

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