Chapitre

Privacy in Public : Translating the Category of Privacy to the Digital Age

in From Categories to Categorization: Studies in Sociology, Organizations and Strategy at the Crossroads

Bajpai, Karthikeya ; Weber, Klaus

Durand, Rodolphe (19..-....) - docteur en gestion. Directeur de publication ; Granqvist, Nina. Directeur de publication ; Tyllström, Anna. Directeur de publication

Emerald 2017 - Ref. 10.1108/S0733-558X20170000051006 - 223-258 p.

We examine the translation of the concept of privacy in the advent of digital communication technologies. We analyze emerging notions of informational privacy in public discourse and policymaking in the United States. Our analysis shows category change to be a dynamic process that is only in part about cognitive processes of similarity. Instead, conceptions of privacy were tied to institutional orders of worth. Those orders offered theories, analogies, and vocabularies that could be deployed to ... extrapolate the concept of privacy into new domains, make sense of new technologies, and to shape policy agendas.

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