Privacy and philosophy : new media and affective protocol /

This book draws on an array of philosophers to offer a refreshingly novel approach to privacy matters. Theorizing privacy as an affective principle of interaction between human and non-human agents, the author makes unique arguments on transparency, the publicness of subjectivity, our contemporary t...

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Main Author: McStay, Andrew, 1975-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2014]
Series:Digital formations ; v. 86.
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Summary:This book draws on an array of philosophers to offer a refreshingly novel approach to privacy matters. Theorizing privacy as an affective principle of interaction between human and non-human agents, the author makes unique arguments on transparency, the publicness of subjectivity, our contemporary techno-social condition, and the nature of empathic media in an age of intentional machines. -- Publisher description
Physical Description:vi, 186 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-179) and index.
ISBN:9781433118982 (softcover : alk. paper)
143311898X (softcover : alk. paper)
9781433118999 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1433118998 (hardcover : alk. paper)