[ecrea] Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol

Some you might be interested in Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and 
Affective Protocol, a new book I have out with Peter Lang. See below for 
blurb, generous reviews, outline of content, and links to a sample 
chapter and appendix that provides an A to Z (admittedly with a few 
letters missing) of approaches to privacy I detail within the book.

Blurb
What can philosophy tell us about privacy? Quite a lot as it turns out. 
With Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol McStay 
draws on an array of philosophers to offer a refreshingly novel approach 
to privacy matters. Against the backdrop and scrutiny of Arendt, 
Aristotle, Bentham, Brentano, Deleuze, Engels, Heidegger, Hume, Husserl, 
James, Kant, Latour, Locke, Marx, Mill, Plato, Rorty, Ryle, Sartre, 
Skinner, Spinoza, Whitehead and Wittgenstein, among others, McStay 
advances a wealth of new ideas and terminology, from affective breaches 
to zombie media. Theorizing privacy as an affective principle of 
interaction between human and non-human actors, McStay progresses to 
make unique arguments on transparency, the publicness of subjectivity, 
our contemporary techno-social condition, and the nature of empathic 
media in an age of intentional machines. Reconstructing our most basic 
assumptions about privacy, this book is a must-read for theoreticians, 
empirical analysts, students, those contributing to policy and anyone 
interested in the steering philosophical ideas that inform their own 
orientation and thinking about privacy.

Reviews
Joseph Turow (Robert Lewis Shayon Professor, The Annenberg School for 
Communication)
Contemporary privacy issues tend to be discussed in legal, policy or 
sociological terms.  Andrew McStay adds a welcome philosophical context 
to this discussion.  Impressively erudite, Privacy and Philosophy takes 
the reader on a trans-century tour that enlarges our understanding of 
the idea and its implications.

Mark Andrejevic (University of Queensland)
More than at any other time in recent history we are confronted with the 
pressing questions and contradictions raised by the notion of privacy -- 
and Andrew McStay's brilliantly illuminating philosophical tour of the 
concept provides thoughtful and original answers that will serve as 
touchstones for discussions of privacy in the era of Facebook, NSA data 
mining, and beyond.

Jo Pierson (Free University of Brussels, iMinds-SMIT)
The book gives a very original and kaleidoscopic perspective on the 
notion of privacy in an age of social and ubiquitous media. The 
well-chosen selection and in-depth discussion of evident and less 
evident philosophical views, broadens and deepens the view on this 
timely and intensely discussed issue. Especially the framing of privacy 
as an affective set of protocols within the social realm offers relevant 
and refreshing insights.

Clare Birchall (Kings College, London)
Offering a fresh and authoritative take on an established concept, 
McStay avoids the trap of only asking what philosophy can tell us about 
privacy, but also considers what privacy can tell us about epistemology, 
ontology, and metaphysics. This is an important contribution to our 
understanding of how privacy and publicity operate in culture today.

Content
Ch. 1 Introduction

Section 1: Living Together
Ch. 2 Aristotle, borders and the coming of the social
Ch. 3 Liberalism, consent and the problem of seclusion
Ch. 4 Utilitarianism, radical transparency and moral truffles
Ch. 5 Pragmatism: jettisoning normativity ?

Section 2: Knowing
Ch. 6 Heidegger (part 1): concerning a-historical being and events
Ch. 7 Heidegger (part 2): on moods and empathic media
Ch. 8 Latour: raising the profile of immaterial actants
Ch. 9 Phenomenology: the rise of intentional machines
Ch. 10 The subject: caring for what is public
Ch. 11 Alienation: the value in being public
Ch. 12 Spinoza: politics of affect
Ch. 13 Whitehead: privacy events
Ch. 14 Community facts

Appendix: An A to Z of privacy: new theories and terminology

Links
Peter Lang book homepage: http://tinyurl.com/ojpbga9?
Sample chapter 1: http://tinyurl.com/mmemhgy??
Appendix of new theory: http://tinyurl.com/my4ot3v

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Senior Lecturer for School of Creative Studies and Media
Director of Media and Persuasive Communication (MPC) network
Bangor University
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Most recent book: Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol
Other books: Digital Advertising; The Mood of Information: A Critique of 
Online Behavioural Advertising; Creativity and Advertising
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