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Your smartphone, Your life : an exploratory study on the dynamics between the domestication of smartphones and intimate privacy in households
Parauti, J.J.J. (2022) Your smartphone, Your life : an exploratory study on the dynamics between the domestication of smartphones and intimate privacy in households.
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| Abstract: | This study addresses the current gap that exists in the literature between the use of smartphones and intimate privacy within households. Based on the domestication of smartphones, the behaviour and attitudes towards intimate privacy of members of a household are explored. The exploratory study was carried out using 20 semi-structured interviews. The findings of the study give evidence that there is a relationship between the level of domestication of smartphones and the attitude towards intimate privacy.The study also gives new insights into ways people can maintain intimate privacy by the use of shielding, going to another place and using smartphone protection. On top of that, the study also presents the possible consequences of the relation between the domestication of smartphones and intimate privacy, people that domesticated their smartphones completely share less information with others in their household to maintain intimate privacy. And irritations occur because of the information asymmetry between people that domesticated their smartphones entirely and people that have not domesticated their smartphones entirely. This study provided interesting theoretical discoveries, such as ways to maintain intimate privacy and the differences in the domestication of smartphones within households. By maintaining intimate privacy, intimate privacy violations can be reduced. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 05 communication studies |
| Programme: | Communication Studies BSc (56615) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/91340 |
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