EAN: 9783319024554

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN DIGITAL SPACES AGAINST THE ...

Several prominent public voices have advanced the hypothesis that networked communications
erode the value of privacy in favor of a transparent connected existence. Especially younger
generations are often described as prone to live open digital lives. This hypothesis has raised
considerable controversy  polarizing the reaction of its critics as well as of its partisans.
But how likely is the end of privacy? Under which conditions might this scenario come to be?
What are the business and policy implications? How to ethically assess risks and opportunities?
To shed light on the co-evolution and mutual dependencies of networked structures and
individual and collective strategies towards privacy  this book innovatively uses cutting-edge
methods in computational social sciences to study the formation and maintenance of online
social networks. The findings confound common arguments and clearly indicate that Internet and
social media do not necessarily entail the end of privacy. Publicity is not the new norm: quite
to the contrary  the book makes the case that privacy is a resilient social force  resulting
from a set of interconnected behaviors of Internet users.

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