Public parts : how sharing in the digital age improves the way we work and live / Jeff Jarvis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarvis, Jeff, 1954-

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

The Todd and Elizabeth Donovan Endowed Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online social networks.

Privacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 263 pages.)

Edition:

First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Countering the fears of privacy advocates, Jarvis, director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, compares fears about the negative impact of the Internet to the fear that met the invention of the printing press. In a discussion of the limits of privacy in the age of public online sharing, he argues that cyberspace needs to be protected just as much as the physical environment, and heralds the progression to a more public society. One of the highlights of the book is its excerpts from interviews with well-known online sharing pioneers, such as leaders and innovators of Facebook, Google, Twitter, as well as less-known designers behind sites such as Dodgeball and Blippy. The author is affiliated with the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The ages of publicness

The prophet of publicness: Mark Zuckerberg

Public choices : Private Germans ; The German paradox ; My public parts ; My private parts

The benefits of publicness : Publicness ... ; Builds relationships ; Disarms strangers ; Enables collaboration ; Unleases the wisdom (and generosity) of the crowd ; Defuses the myth of perfection ; Neutralizes stigmas ; Grants immortality ... or at least credit ; Organizes us ; Protects us

A history the private and the public : Fiendish kodakers ; Technology fears ; The making of the modern public ; The public sphere

The public press : Gutenberg's and God's gift ; The making and unmaking of mass media

What is privacy? : How do you define privacy? ; How do we protect privacy? ; The ethics of privacy and publicness

How public are we? : We have met the public, and they are us ; How public is too public? ; Oversharing

The public you : Identity and reputation ; Public advice

The sharing industry : The public economy ; Evan Williams: blogger and twitter ; Dennis Crowley: dodgeball and foursquare ; Philip Kaplan: blippy ; Josh Harris: We Live in Public and Wired City

The radically public company : Imagine ; Open-and-shut case studies

By the people : Killing secrecy ; Beyond openness

The new world : Who will protect publicness? ; Principles of publicness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the The Todd and Elizabeth Donovan Endowed Fund.

ISBN:

9781451636376

1451636377

Publisher Number:

99985053795

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.