TY - CHAP

T1 - When Privacy Goes Public

T2 - New Media and the Transformation of the Culture of Confession

AU - Burkart, Günter

PY - 2010/1/1

Y1 - 2010/1/1

N2 - Media researchers are accustomed to the view that in the mass media there is a growing number of acts of self-disclosure and self-exposure, of publicizing private matters. This seems to be true especially for the new media: the Internet, new forms of television, but also mobile phone usage in public places. More and more people, it is said, are eager to reveal intimate details of their private lives in public, to expose themselves in an indecent, shameless manner. As a consequence, there seems to be a dissolution of the boundaries between the private and the public spheres, enabled by the new media.

AB - Media researchers are accustomed to the view that in the mass media there is a growing number of acts of self-disclosure and self-exposure, of publicizing private matters. This seems to be true especially for the new media: the Internet, new forms of television, but also mobile phone usage in public places. More and more people, it is said, are eager to reveal intimate details of their private lives in public, to expose themselves in an indecent, shameless manner. As a consequence, there seems to be a dissolution of the boundaries between the private and the public spheres, enabled by the new media.

KW - Sociology

KW - Public Sphere

KW - Mobile Phone Usage

KW - Private Matter

KW - Informational Privacy

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85015962121&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1057/9780230290679_3

DO - 10.1057/9780230290679_3

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9780230290679

SN - 978-1-349-31927-5

SP - 23

EP - 38

BT - Modern Privacy

A2 - Blatterer, Harry

A2 - Johnson, Pauline

A2 - Markus, Maria R.

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

CY - Houndmills

ER -