PERFORMING PRIVACY HOW PRIVACY CONCERNS ARE ENACTED WITHIN CHILDREN’S INTERNET ENVIRONMENTS Isolde Sprenkels Irma van der Ploeg
APC The DigIDeas Project DigIDeas: social and ethical aspects of Digital IDentities. Towards a Value Sensitive Identity Management. Aims – Identify and reframe social and ethical aspects of digital identities – Contribute to academic and policy debates – Aid in developing more value sensitive identity management systems Theoretical and Methodological framework – Social and constructivist studies of science and technology – Surveillance studies – Philosophy of technology – Discourse analysis – Actor network theory
APC Privacy, Identity, Reputation and Trust Context PhD project connecting to panel Digitized society – Interact – Communicate – Exchange – Identity management – Digital traces – Monitoring
APC PhD Project ‘Growing pains’ in a Personal Relationship Economy. Children, Identity, and New Media in Brand – Child Relationships. Identity – ‘Growing pains’ – Interactive, mediated, relational, dynamic Children and new media – Play, learn, explore, interact Corporations and new media – Where children are online is where one needs to be – Online presence corporations – Corporate goals – What children do and care for online is worth monitoring
APC PhD Project Sensitivities ‘personal relationship economy’ Shaping children’s (consumer) identities Case studies – Digital marketing practices – Framing commercial literacy – Performance of privacy ANT informed analysis of privacy concerns in the context of (children’s) internet environments
APC ANT Actor Network Theory – Bruno Latour, Michel Callon, Madeleine Akrich, John Law – ≠ theory – Case studies – Actors – Networks – Human & non-human “not to impose a priori some spurious asymmetry among human intentional action and a material world of causal relations” [Latour 2005:76] – Material-semiotics (Callon) or sociology of associations (Latour)
APC ANT Informed Analysis of Privacy Concerns Conceptualization of privacy – Not unequivocal – Privacy enacted = outcome of translations and interactions of actors within network Following the actors Example Multiplicity [Mol 2002] of privacy Why this is helpful for my research project