Revealing privacy : debating the understandings of privacy

This volume explores and discusses how privacy is understood today. What is privacy? What strategies are used to achieve or to protect the individual's privacy? How are our conceptions of privacy evolved throughout times and cultures? Given the multidimensional character of privacy, the book analyses the variety and complexity of its meanings by adopting a cross-disciplinary position. The contributions collected here approach the topic from a multiplicity of perspectives and with the support of modern critical theories in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, visual art, and media. In discussing the main questions raised by the privacy issue, the essays reveal the multifaceted aspects of human experience, which cannot be easily explored within a single framework for interpretation. This book gives the reader the opportunity to explore some of these aspects and to learn more about privacy - how important it is to us and how much we will miss it if it is neglected - and ultimately more about ourselves. Cover 1 Table of contents 9 Editor’s Introduction 11 The private in the public archive: Maryanne Dever 19 Secrets among spouses: marital privacy in Cicero’s letters: Linda McGuire 31 Visualising ancient privacy in the Roman house: Margherita Carucci 45 Multiple privacies: Nesting spheres of intimacy in Western Siberian indigenous lifestyles: Elena Liarskaia and Stephan Dudeck 61 Sociological and philosophical insight into privacy inpostmodern cities: Karol Kurnicki and Katarzyna Salamon 75 Privacy and depth configurations. Proximity, permeability and territorial boundaries in urban projects. Kris W. B. Scheerlinck 89 Privacy, photography, and the art defense: Sarah Parsons 105 Social networking sites and privacy as contextualintegrity: Miia Vistilä and Floora Ruokonen 119 Private life in bits and pieces: Digital and molecular personhood in the information age: Ilpo Helén and Karoliina Snell 133 Notes on Contributors 151 Contents: Margherita Carucci: Editor's Introduction - Maryanne Dever: The private in the public archive - Linda McGuire: Secrets among spouses. Marital privacy in Cicero's letters - Margherita Carucci: Visualising ancient privacy in the Roman house - Elena Liarskalia/Stephan Dudeck: Multiple Privacies - Nesting spheres of intimacy in Western Siberian indigenous lifestyles - Karol Kurnicki/Katarzyna Salamon: Sociological and philosophical insight into privacy in postmodern cities - Kris W. B. Scheerlinck: Depth configurations and privacy. Proximity, permeability and territorial boundaries in urban projects - Sarah Parsons: Privacy, photography, and the art defense - Miia Vistila/Floora Ruokonen: Social networking sites and privacy as contextual integrity - Ilpo Helen/Karoliina Snell: Private life in bits and pieces: Digital and molecular personhood in the information age.