IsisCB Explore

Thesis ID: CBB001560954

Privacy and Communications Technologies in United States History: A Comparison of Concepts of Privacy in Relation to Changing Communications Technologies (2006)

Pennsylvania State University
Parsons, Patrick
Publication date: 2006
Language: English

Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: Advisor: Parsons, Patrick
Physical Details: 116 pp.

Outside Links

Technology Journalism Communication technology Privacy Internet United States

This comparative study explores the relationship between the concept of privacy and the development of communications technologies in U.S. history. This examination of privacy with communications technologies helps us to understand how the concept of privacy has gained its new contents, meanings, and functions in different times and societies shaped by communications technologies. Before examining the relationship between privacy and communications technologies, this study attempts to define the fundamental nature and functions of privacy from a philosophical perspective by using body-heart-mind (physical-emotional- spiritual) metaphors. In relation to mainstream communications technologies, this study examines the main concerns of privacy as related to mass media and the Internet, respectively. Newspapers, the first mass medium, changed the nature of privacy concerns from the physical intrusion on personal boundary to the exposure of personal life. On the other hand, the rise of the Internet in the information society has again raised new concerns of privacy, but ones focused on the abuse of personal information. This study compares these findings and traces the changing aspects of privacy as they relate to communications technologies. After analyzing the relationship between the nature of privacy (physical-emotional-spiritual privacy) and communications technologies, this study also suggests directions and guidelines for making privacy policies in the Internet age.

...More

Description Comparison of newspapers and Internet technologies. Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 67/08 (2007). Pub. no. AAT 3229416.

Citation URI

data.isiscb.org/p/isis/citation/CBB001560954

This citation is part of the Isis database.

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Jean-François Fava-Verde; (July 2020)
Managing Privacy: Cryptography or Private Networks of Communication in the Nineteenth Century (/p/isis/citation/CBB850123370/)

Book Baughman, James L.; (2006)
The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941 (/p/isis/citation/CBB000700560/)

Article Aynne Kokas; (2018)
Platform Patrol: China, the United States, and the Global Battle for Data Security (/p/isis/citation/CBB992297943/)

Thesis Kim, Richard S.Y.; (2010)
Cyber-Surveillance: A Case Study in Policy and Development (/p/isis/citation/CBB001567169/)

Book Brian Hochman; (2022)
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States (/p/isis/citation/CBB775086796/)

Book Brunton, Finn; (2013)
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (/p/isis/citation/CBB001211855/)

Book Ryan, Johnny; (2010)
A History of the Internet and the Digital Future (/p/isis/citation/CBB001033356/)

Book Finn, Bernard S.; Bud, Robert; Trischler, Helmuth; (2004)
Presenting Pictures (/p/isis/citation/CBB000610373/)

Article Sumner, James; Gooday, Graeme J. N.; (2008)
Introduction (/p/isis/citation/CBB001023038/)

Book Zittrain, Jonathan; (2009)
The future of the Internet: And how to stop it (/p/isis/citation/CBB001180088/)

Article Lukasik, Stephen J.; (2011)
Why the Arpanet Was Built (/p/isis/citation/CBB001231710/)

Article Wouter M. P. Steijn; Anton Vedder; (July 2015)
Privacy under Construction: A Developmental Perspective on Privacy Perception (/p/isis/citation/CBB590761705/)

Book Duane C. Wilson; (2021)
Cybersecurity (/p/isis/citation/CBB201310866/)

Article Ben Falchuk; Shoshana Loeb; Ralph Neff; (June 2018)
The Social Metaverse: Battle for Privacy (/p/isis/citation/CBB447859564/)

Article Vijay Sivaraman; Hassan Habibi Gharakheili; Clinton Fernandes; Narelle Clark; Tanya Karliychuk; (June 2018)
Smart IoT Devices in the Home: Security and Privacy Implications (/p/isis/citation/CBB353680957/)

Book Francesca Musiani; Derrick L. Cogburn; Laura DeNardis; Nannette S. Levinson; (2016)
The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Governance (/p/isis/citation/CBB771724730/)

Chapter Coopersmith, Jonathan C.; (1999)
The role of the pornography industry in the development of videotape and the Internet (/p/isis/citation/CBB118649229/)

Book John Cheney-Lippold; (2017)
We are data : Algorithms and the making of our digital selves (/p/isis/citation/CBB593815757/)

Thesis Simon, Craig Lyle; (2006)
Launching the DNS War: Dot-Com Privatization and the Rise of Global Internet Governance (/p/isis/citation/CBB001560608/)

Article Tziporah Stern; David Salb; (2015)
Examining Online Social Network Use and Its Effect on the Use of Privacy Settings and Profile Disclosure (/p/isis/citation/CBB947931495/)