Beyond Privacy: People, Practices, Politics

Discussions around digital technologies, new media, platforms and information have long centred on the protection of personal data and privacy. This timely volume extends the conversation to address fundamental societal and structural issues from three perspectives: people, practices and politics.

Organised around an international collection of case studies, the book provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of the challenges of privacy in the digital sphere, from emerging regulatory programmes to surveillance capitalism and big tech companies.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this is a new and innovative perspective on our datafied societies that goes beyond privacy. It will be a key resource for scholars and students of communication and media studies, and science and technology studies.

Sille Obelitz Søe is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Tanja Wiehn is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Copenhagen. Rikke Frank Jørgensen is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. Bjarki Valtysson is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen.