Privacy beyond intellectual freedom: Libraries and digital self-sovereignty
Mestre, Juliana
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Title
Privacy beyond intellectual freedom: Libraries and digital self-sovereignty
Author(s)
Mestre, Juliana
Issue Date
2023-09
Keyword(s)
Critical Librarianship
Information Ethics
Information Privacy
Philosophy of Information
Political Economy of the Information Society
Privacy
Surveillance
Abstract
In this paper, critical methods are used to develop a tri-part argument surrounding data privacy and its implications on digital self-sovereignty in the context of libraries. First, the introduction is used to expand on the changing landscape of privacy and librarianship in relation to the data collection rife among library vendors. Second, I turn to the philosophy of information to establish how personal data, as personally identifiable information, are integral to the constitution of the self and thus to digital self-sovereignty. Third, Derridean theory is used to explain how a loss of digital self-sovereignty impacts the very possibility of ethical intersubjectivity. The goal of this paper is to challenge assumptions about data privacy, digital self-sovereignty, and the impact on ethical intersubjectivity in the 21st century, thus contributing to the philosophical scaffolding around privacy as a value for librarianship.
Series/Report Name or Number
Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference, 2023
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
Handle URL
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/123150
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2023.1370
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Copyright 2023 Juliana Mestre
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
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