Nobody Steals It From You: You Give It For Free. The Culture of Self-Disclosure and Privacy Issues in Facebook: Gender Implications

      Аннотация: This book discusses Facebook's social design that encourages users conscious or unconscious disclosure of own private information. Having a predisposition that institutions of personal and informational privacy are absolutely questionable understandings on Facebook, the Author examines users’ motives of self-disclosure with comparative analyses on social benefits that this network offers to its users. The analyses presented in this work should be interesting for the professionals in Digital Humanities, Communications and Gender Studies. It also targets those researches who examine legal implications of social networks, including individuals' constitutional right to privacy.

Ключевые слова: Facebook, Privacy, Self-disclosure, social networks, Gender Issues