privacy is contextual

  • consider capturing text in public vs capturing a photo
  • Smolicki’s experiment with wearable camera’s concluded that your own surroundings are ‘only superficially private’ ⤴️ ⤴️ as other people’s lives become the subject - “an inherently imbalanced field of power dynamics. My presence within this field was privileged at the cost of all the others not aware of constituting the subject of capture.” ⤴️ - “I encountered no strong objections to my wearing of the device (except on one occasion, to which I will return shortly), especially not in public spaces.” ⤴️ - for whom and in what circumstances would you and wouldn’t you receive complaint / be kicked out / experience hostility / worse, for violating either assumed or explicit privacy
  • when is privacy expectation implicit and explicit?
  • “a variety of ways that the term privacy is comprehended (and performed) by individuals which stems from, for example, their diverse cultural backgrounds (cf. discussion on culture-specific meaning of privacy in Ess, 2013, p.109).” -> ⤴️
    • “risk of disrespecting such individual opinions (cultural) differences and attitudes in relation to this concern.” -> ⤴️