Relational privacy and the networked governance of the self

The self today is networked, and governed through networks. This paper examines the four functions of privacy as set out by privacy theorist Alan Westin [1967. Privacy and freedom. New York: Atheneum] and works to construct a revised view of the functions of privacy in a networked world by drawing on feminist theories of relationality. Many basic ideas about privacy, drawn from the Western liberal tradition, have been challenged, redrawn, and …