<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459617544138_6768">Call for Papers –<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459617544138_6769">Transparent Privacy in the Digital Era: How Users Create Information Boundaries Online </strong></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459617544138_6770"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459617544138_6771">115th AAA Annual Meeting “Evidence, Accident, Discovery”</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459617544138_6772">16-20 November 2016, Minneapolis</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459617544138_6773">Organizer: Aslihan Akkaya (Florida International University)</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459617544138_6773"><br></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459617544138_6774">Preliminary Session Abstract:</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459617544138_6775">The ubiquity of Internet technologies and their embededness in the fabric of our everyday sociality brings with them concerns about privacy. These concerns are particularly acute in regards to digital media that requires transparency in self-presentation online. Online platforms are places for self-expression, communication, information dissemination and self-promotion and skill. However this great utility facilitates data collection and surveillance. Thus, while social networks encourage their users to present a transparent identity, many users take steps to bolster their sense of personal privacy and safety. Anthropologists studying social media platforms have encountered diverse methods by which individuals and groups attempt to balance requirements for information and privacy. They have created what we term “Transparent Privacy,” while continuing to engage in what is often believed to be an essential form of social interaction. Unique performances of privacy within differing online platforms display concerns relating the individual protagonist (such as gender and race), community (cultural and geographic affiliation), and techno-materiality (audience and accessibility). This panel explores how our understanding of the diverse performances of privacy to illustrate “weapons of the weak” used to push back against potential exploitation of personal information and individual skill. In doing so, this research highlights the local and global discourses that influence user perceptions on privacy with the goal of understanding how unique practices to maintain personal boundaries of privacy may indicate emerging conceptions of Internet-based rights. </div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459617544138_6776">We invite papers analyzing how individuals or groups percieve, articulate, and perform privacy in digitial media platforms. </div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1459617544138_6777">Please send abstracts of 250 words, along with paper title and keywords, to Aslihan Akkaya (aaslihan@fiu.edu) by April 9th.</div></div></body></html>