Networked privacy: How teenagers negotiate context in social media

Type Journal Article Author Alice E. Marwick Author Danah Boyd URL http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/07/19/1461444814543995 Pages 1461444814543995 Publication New Media & Society ISSN 1461-4448, 1461-7315 Date 2014-07-21 Journal Abbr New Media Society DOI 10.1177/1461444814543995 Accessed 2015-01-21 19:37:11 Library Catalog nms.sagepub.com Language en Abstract While much attention is given to young people’s online privacy practices on sites like Facebook, current theories of privacy fail to account for the ways in which social media alter practices of information-sharing and visibility. Traditional models of privacy are individualistic, but the realities of privacy reflect the location of individuals in contexts and networks. The affordances of social technologies, which enable people to share information about others, further preclude individual control over privacy. Despite this, social media technologies primarily follow technical models of privacy that presume individual information control. We argue that the dynamics of sites like Facebook have forced teens to alter their conceptions of privacy to account for the networked nature of social media. Drawing on their practices and experiences, we offer a model of networked privacy to explain how privacy is achieved in networked publics. Short Title Networked privacy