paradoxes of privatization. modern life activity patterns, social networks, experiential ranges are...
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paradoxes of privatization
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modern life
activity patterns, social networks, experiential ranges are scattered through space & time
communication and transportation technologies permit scattering and tie things together
media assemble & reassemble people's frameworks of knowledge & action in space & time
experience becomes decentered and disjointed
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activity spaces (physical & virtual)
Illustration of one person’s daily activity space by Mei-Po Kwan, Ohio State University
http://geog-www.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/mkwan/WebCV/KwanWebCV.html
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blurring of public & private
private spaces link up with increasing number of public spaces
public spaces become quasi-public, that is, privately owned and controlled
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elements of American culture (acc. to Zelinsky)
1. intense, almost anarchistic individualism2. high valuation on mobility & change3. mechanistic view of world 4. messianic perfectionism
All 4 link to the interest in mediated communication, but most subtle & interesting links are to individualism.
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mediated life
elements of individualism aggravated by media:– Insecurity– ambition– aggression
Everything in the house & accessible via remote control
– no public life, no sidewalks– purified community (Sennett)– protection of private property, avoidance of difference– conspicuous consumption– escape from real community
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public vs. private
"Public" life – living up to the images one sees every day on the
media in private space & time
"Private" life– paranoia produced by the inflated sense of threat
and danger based in class and race myths
inversion of the real and the unreal
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echoes of real life
The Matrix = technology run rampant, no privacy, constant mediation of experience
Blade Runner = manufactured identity, “you are what you consume”
ER & Friends = search for community, belonging (making friends with other friends of Friends, online in 150 sites)
Reality TV = characters give up their privacy so viewers can lazily indulge their own desire for social disengagement
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instant friends
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do we envy their loss of privacy?
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foundations of privacy
simulation technology + marketing = complete loss of the possibility of privacy (since privacy is founded on autonomy and on real public life)
– atomized TV audience– one-way radial topology, greatest free-time use of time– well-rounded image of others is inaccessible in a
segmented society, so we accept a fabricated sense of knowing about those others
– lack of community is permitted and perpetuated by virtual friends
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an excess of privacy?
As parents and communities "respect" kids' privacy they:
– build armaments– develop a taste for blood
and guts– lack real role models– lack public spaces to
build ties to adults– eventually carry out
savage attacks on classmates & teachers
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris
the “trenchcoat mafia” of Columbine High School
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Is IT a possible fix?
situational segmentation (cocooning) spatial segmentation (rootlessness) fluid identity online: withdrawal leads to new forms of
engagement (coupled with vulnerability to surveillance)
people become "digital individuals" (Curry) bought and sold by private companies
the post-private individual, transparent but segmented = a new Turing's man?