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Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a matter of social justice. In The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media (Yale UP, 2023), Alice E. Marwick offers a new way of understanding how privacy is jeopardized, particularly for marginalized and disadvantaged communities—including immigrants, the poor, people of color, LGBTQ+ populations, and victims of online harassment.Marwick shows that there are few resources or regulations for preventing personal information from…
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