PRIVACY IN COMMON SPACES: MOBILE COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC PLACES Cover Image

ЛИЧНОЕ В ОБЩИХ ПРОСТРАНСТВАХ: МОБИЛЬНЫЕ КОММУНИКАЦИИ В ПУБЛИЧНЫХ МЕСТАХ
PRIVACY IN COMMON SPACES: MOBILE COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC PLACES

Author(s): Alla A. Petrenko-Lysak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Theory of Communication, Behaviorism, Social development, Social Theory, Social Informatics, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Издатель Наталья Докучаева
Keywords: mobile phone; common/public/social place, talk; forced overhearing; mobile etiquette;

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of "forced overhearing" is considered in the article. The author analyzes the communicative processes of mobile phones use, leading to the transformation or blurring of boundaries of private and public dimensions. The value and nature of public/common/social spaces and features of modern people’s behaviour are studied in the situations when there is a need or a wish for a mobile phone talk. The author describes the concepts of ethics of indifference and mobile etiquette.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 32-40
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian