Doctoral thesis by Dr. Philipp Masur
What do we think of when we hear the word privacy? Sometimes we think of our home or apartment - a classical "private" sphere. But aren't our thoughts also private in some way? What about information about ourselves? Is our name, address, or birthday private? Finding an answer to the question of how to define privacy is not easy, despite all the existing attempts to conceptualize the construct. From a socio-psychological point of view, however, it makes sense to conceive of privacy as a situational construct...read more
