Welcome to our Home, Stranger! Notions of Networked Privacy in the Context of Couchsurfing.org

This talk examines negotiations over group privacy through a qualitative analysis of experiences of hosting strangers via Couchsurfing.org, a social network service focused on hospitality exchange. Altman’s (1975) boundary regulation framework is used as a theoretical starting point to understand how households of more than one person negotiate when and whom to host. Opening the home for couchsurfers requires regulating interactional boundaries both on the Couchsurfing.org site and in domestic spaces. The analysis broadens our understandings of networked privacy.

发言人详细信息

Airi Lampinen is a PhD candidate in Social Psychology at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and a researcher in the Network Society research program at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT. Her research interests include interactional privacy, self-presentation, and local online social exchange. Her recent work has focused on boundary regulation and identity work as related to online sharing and media choice. Previously, she spent a year as a Fulbright visiting student researcher at the School of Information at University of California – Berkeley.

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Airi Lampinen
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University of Helsinki