TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ochs, Carsten
A1  - Ilyes, Petra
T1  - Sociotechnical privacy. Mapping the research landscape
T2  - Tecnoscienza
N2  - While it is extraordinarily difficult to theoretically specify privacy, in the last 100 years or so (social) psychology, philosophy, communication studies, economics, and, to a lesser degree, also sociology and anthropology, provided attempts to conceptualize its meaning. Be that as it may, from the 1960s onwards privacy discourse has focused upon data, understood as “personal information”, to a certain extent because of the advent of huge databases and information and communication technologies (ICTs). Influential scholarship at the present time tends to conceive of ICT-related privacy in terms of the “sociotechnical”, thus highlighting the interlocking of human and technical agency. Although having developed a manifold of instruments to research sociotechnical phenomena, STS engagement with sociotechnical privacy, so far, has been rather low-key. In our contribution we therefore provide a mapping of the research landscape, identify connecting factors between STS and sociotechnical privacy research, and calling for further STS contributions.
KW  - privacy theory
KW  - sociotechnical privacy
KW  - quantitative privacy research
KW  - qualitative privacy research
KW  - STS privacy research
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/72297
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-722971
SN  - 2038-3460
VL  - 4.2013
IS  - 2
SP  - 73
EP  - 91
PB  - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione
CY  - Padova
ER  -