TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract We examine the translation of the concept of privacy in the advent of digital communication technologies. We analyze emerging notions of informational privacy in public discourse and policymaking in the United States. Our analysis shows category change to be a dynamic process that is only in part about cognitive processes of similarity. Instead, conceptions of privacy were tied to institutional orders of worth. Those orders offered theories, analogies, and vocabularies that could be deployed to extrapolate the concept of privacy into new domains, make sense of new technologies, and to shape policy agendas.
VL  - 51
SN  - 978-1-78714-238-1, 978-1-78714-239-8/0733-558X
DO  - 10.1108/S0733-558X20170000051006
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20170000051006
AU  - Bajpai Kartikeya
AU  - Weber Klaus
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Privacy in Public: Translating the Category of Privacy to the Digital Age
T2  - From Categories to Categorization: Studies in Sociology, Organizations and Strategy at the Crossroads
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 223
EP  - 258
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -