comm privacy management theory

comm privacy management theory

1. Explains the process by which people manage the concealing and revealing of private info

Theory assumptions

1. Humans are choice makers

2. Humans are rule followers

3. Rules and choices are based on self & others

Private Disclosure

1. People think about rules when making disclosures

2. Can be about self or others

CPM is dialectic

Competency for desire and privacy opposing each other

5 Principles of CPMT

1. ownership

2. Conreol

3. Rules

4. Co-Ownership

5. Turbulence

Owenership

We believe we own info about ourselves

Control

We seek to control private info

We have private boundaries

Boundaries are preamabke = thin

Not preamabke= thick

Rules

Rules guide what private info we share

1. Rule developments = core criteria = more stable, catalyst/ action

2. Rule attributes = socialization = family friends culture / negotiation = create new rules w others

Co-ownership

1. Shared info becomes co owned

2. Collective boundary / linkage boundary = connection w private info

Boundary coordination

Managing this cowned info

Turbelnce

Conflicts about boundary expectations and regulations

Privacy dilemma

1. Accidental= you accidentally heart this private info

2. Confidant= purpose tell you

3. Illcit= spying

Goals

1. Empirical / Interpatuve

2. Heuirism, uselful

3. Explain, predict, understand