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Individual Privacy: A Social Construction?

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 I agree with your above comment. The second section in particular seems out of place - the first and the third go together well, but I feel like by the end it hasn't really addressed the thesis you expressed in the introduction. If you want to keep your uniqueness thesis, you may want to look into psych research, as there is probably extant work on the topic (though you may not want to use "uniqueness bias", as this term has already been coined in another context: http://psp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/29/5/559)

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  • Here's a piece suspended at the verge of editing. Ted made a suggestion, which was helpful, and confirmed your own awareness of the difficulty. But there it stopped. Being edited would help you understand what to do next: the editor would suggest a reorganization, and you'd say "Ah, yes, that would be better." But what you really need is not the edit but the clue to how to do the edit. I'm not sure I have that. But here's the basic problem: you split one idea into three components and discussed them separately. That didn't work. Now you should try a structure that doesn't break the idea into pieces, but rather exhibits directly connected facets. Individualism and privacy seem to be related in a certain direct and predictable way. But actually, the cultural bias towards the individual free of his context that creates the demand for privacy in the sense of autonomy reduces the individual's ability to perceive how his autonomy is actually undercut by failures of secrecy and anonymity.
 
 
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