Who: Abby Marsh (Associate Professor of Computer Science at Macalester)
When: Thursday May 21st, 3:30-4:30pm
Where: Anderson 329
Title: Privacy and Digital Communities: Fandom, Surveillance States, and Collective Identities
Abstract: Usable privacy is a subfield of computer science which studies how people make decisions about their privacy practices, such as what information to put online or what apps to use, and how platforms and interfaces influence those decisions. In the field’s thirty-year history, most research thinks about the user, a concept of an individual making choices about their own privacy with little or no external influence. This is incrementally changing, for good reason: many of us share phone or account passwords with family, friends, and romantic partners, or we make choices because the people around us, our communities, have certain values. This talk explores the idea of studying privacy decisions as expressions of collective norms or boundaries using two case studies, one from a broadly western context and one specifically examining the Chinese internet.
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