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vicarzEuropean vs. American conceptualizations of privacy from cultural perspectives:
http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/September-October-2004/review_rosen_sepoct04.html
"Instead of seeking a good name that will bring them honor, people seek to be famous in the way that a celebrity is famous—that is, "a person who is well known for his well knownness," as the social historian Daniel Boorstin memorably put it in his book The Image. Boorstin wrote before the development of the Internet turned every citizen into a potential public figure. Thanks to the Web, private citizens now have the same technological opportunities as celebrities to expose and market themselves to strangers, with similarly unsettling results.
Consider the proliferation of blogs, the personal Internet journals that often combine political musings with intimate disclosures about daily life. There are more than a million and a half of them, according to one of the latest estimates. Some are devoted exclusively to public affairs while others are nothing more than published diaries. (A site called Diarist.net collects more than 10,000 journals from self-styled "online exhibitionists.") Often, these diaries are virtually unreadable examples of self-display, dreary accounts of navel-gazing whose primary function seems to be therapeutic. But they reflect a desire for public attention so powerful that it erases the boundaries between public and private."
http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/September-October-2004/review_rosen_sepoct04.html
"Instead of seeking a good name that will bring them honor, people seek to be famous in the way that a celebrity is famous—that is, "a person who is well known for his well knownness," as the social historian Daniel Boorstin memorably put it in his book The Image. Boorstin wrote before the development of the Internet turned every citizen into a potential public figure. Thanks to the Web, private citizens now have the same technological opportunities as celebrities to expose and market themselves to strangers, with similarly unsettling results.
Consider the proliferation of blogs, the personal Internet journals that often combine political musings with intimate disclosures about daily life. There are more than a million and a half of them, according to one of the latest estimates. Some are devoted exclusively to public affairs while others are nothing more than published diaries. (A site called Diarist.net collects more than 10,000 journals from self-styled "online exhibitionists.") Often, these diaries are virtually unreadable examples of self-display, dreary accounts of navel-gazing whose primary function seems to be therapeutic. But they reflect a desire for public attention so powerful that it erases the boundaries between public and private."
