[Air-L] Privacy and the Media

[Andrew McStay]

New book time... Privacy and the Media is now out in paper and hardback with Sage.



Review copies available here<https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/privacy-and-the-media/book245705#description> and a sample chapter available here<goo.gl:cmbEhJ>.



While dedicated privacy scholars (from media, politics, cultural studies, surveillance, law and information studies) will obtain fresh insights, I’ve kept this very student-friendly. In addition to ensuring clear and accessible language, each chapter contains key questions and think points, along with suggestions for further research.



As you’ll see below, some of the topics covered are familiar, but others are of a more emergent nature.




TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Introduction


PART 1: JOURNALISM, SURVEILLANCE AND POLITICS OF ENCRYPTION

Chapter 2 Nothing to hide, nothing to fear: myth and Western roots of privacy

Chapter 3 Journalism: a complex relationship with privacy

Chapter 4 The Snowden leaks: a call for better surveillance

Chapter 5 Encryption: simultaneously public and private



PART 2: COMMERCIAL DIMENSIONS OF PRIVACY AND MEDIA

Chapter 6 Platforms: disruption, connection and new social actors

Chapter 7 Behavioural and programmatic advertising: consent, data alienation and problems with Marx

Chapter 8 The right to be forgotten: memory, deletion and expression

Chapter 9 Big data: machine learning and the politics of algorithms



PART 3: THE ROLE OF THE BODY

Chapter 10 Empathic media: towards ubiquitous emotional intelligence

Chapter 11 Re-introducing the body: intimate and wearable media

Chapter 12 Being young and social: inter-personal privacy and debunking seclusion

Chapter 13 Sexting: exposure, protocol and collective privacy

Chapter 14 Conclusion: what do media developments tell us about privacy?


ENDORSEMENTS

Privacy and the Media is a thoughtful survey of the privacy landscape. McStay reviews the intricate tensions and seeming contradictions to offer an accessible book for anyone curious about the contemporary debates in privacy.

danah boyd

Microsoft Research (US)




This pleasingly accessible book tackles all the major questions that arise in a world whose lifeblood is our personal information; liberty, choice, transparency, control. It goes to the “conceptual, ethical and legal heart of privacy”.  McStay argues that privacy is “not about isolation, going off-grid or being a digital hermit”. Rather, it is about managing our online lives and controlling how much others know about us. This book persuades me more than ever that privacy is a branch of ethics – the age-old relationship between the self and the other.

Privacy and the Media’ is not a set of neatly answered questions or defences of established positions. It is a series of embarkation points for further exploration of an increasingly critical area of study, with real-world implications for the nature of our ‘datafied’ selves. The book will serve as a great introduction to informational privacy, not just for media studies students and privacy lawyers, but for any information rights professional needing a deeper understanding of the subject.

Iain Bourne

Information Commissioner's Office (UK)




The only book that addresses the full spectrum of the innovation-privacy dynamic, ranging from advertising to intelligence to wearables. It is both timely and necessary; essential reading.

Gus Hosein

Privacy International




McStay’s great achievement here is to confront many of the pertinent and complex questions about media and privacy in a style that is both authoritative and easy to read. He provides an excellent overview of the perennial debates and considers the implications on privacy of an increasingly data-driven media environment. His book will prove an excellent companion for all students of this fascinating and crucial topic.

Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt

Vrije Universitet Brussel



Clearly and accessibly written, this book is a great resource for anyone interested in the broad range of ways in which privacy and contemporary media are entangled and in the big picture of privacy/media relations today. It challenges media studies to take privacy seriously as a media – and a mediation – issue. I will definitely be assigning it for my students.

Prof. Helen Kennedy

University of Sheffield




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