Privacy and Empowerment in Connective Media

摘要

In order to explore the roadmap and future directions of social, mobile and ubiquitous media technologies for privacy from an Internet Science perspective we take an interdisciplinary perspective, building on research in Media and Communication Studies and Science and Technology Studies. In order to assess to what extent and how people are effectively 'empowered' in relation to their privacy, we investigate how they socially engage with these media and how their communication is being (re)configured. For this we first take a macro perspective by discussing recent interdisciplinary views on the changing internet landscape. Next we take a micro perspective on the position of users of 'connective media'. We then explain and situate user empowerment in relation to online privacy and how this is related to vulnerability. This perspective is used for discussing (young) people and their privacy management, based on the findings of online privacy research projects.