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The Known Citizen - A History of Privacy in Modern America (Hardcover)
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The Known Citizen - A History of Privacy in Modern America (Hardcover)
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Every day, Americans make decisions about their privacy: what to
share and when, how much to expose and to whom. Securing the
boundary between one’s private affairs and public identity has
become a central task of citizenship. How did privacy come to loom
so large in American life? Sarah Igo tracks this elusive social
value across the twentieth century, as individuals questioned how
they would, and should, be known by their own society. Privacy was
not always a matter of public import. But beginning in the late
nineteenth century, as corporate industry, social institutions, and
the federal government swelled, increasing numbers of citizens
believed their privacy to be endangered. Popular journalism and
communication technologies, welfare bureaucracies and police
tactics, market research and workplace testing, scientific inquiry
and computer data banks, tell-all memoirs and social media all
propelled privacy to the foreground of U.S. culture. Jurists and
philosophers but also ordinary people weighed the perils, the
possibilities, and the promise of being known. In the process, they
redrew the borders of contemporary selfhood and citizenship. The
Known Citizen reveals how privacy became the indispensable language
for monitoring the ever-shifting line between our personal and
social selves. Igo’s sweeping history, from the era of
“instantaneous photography” to the age of big data, uncovers
the surprising ways that debates over what should be kept out of
the public eye have shaped U.S. politics and society. It offers the
first wide-angle view of privacy as it has been lived and imagined
by modern Americans.
General
Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2018 |
Authors: |
Sarah E Igo
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Dimensions: |
156 x 235 x 45mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
540 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-73750-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-674-73750-4 |
Barcode: |
9780674737501 |
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