The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media

A compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality

Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a matter of social justice. Alice E. Marwick offers a new way of understanding how privacy is jeopardized, particularly for marginalized and disadvantaged communities—including immigrants, the poor, people of c...