D.E. Wittkower
Old Dominion University, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty Member
Current privacy discourses, especially "privacy paradox" studies, depart from normal design ethics and engineering ethics perspectives by expecting users to conform to technical models of privacy rather than designing for users' mental... more
Current privacy discourses, especially "privacy paradox" studies, depart from normal design ethics and engineering ethics perspectives by expecting users to conform to technical models of privacy rather than designing for users' mental models. This article uses a phenomenology of interpersonal relationships, guided by ethics of care, to establish some elements of a mental model of privacy that we should expect users to have, and applies that model to five cases in the internet of things in order to explore what differences it would make if we designed for privacy as users experience it.
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Crowdfunding remediates pre-capitalist European patronage models of artistic creation with an altered affective economy—one in which artists create within and for communities that identify with the artist and their vision. This article... more
Crowdfunding remediates pre-capitalist European patronage models of artistic creation with an altered affective economy—one in which artists create within and for communities that identify with the artist and their vision. This article critiques the ideal of autonomous art and uses the ethics of care in order to advance a model of the affective dynamics of the artist-community relationship in heteronomous art, which is applied to crowdfunding in order to distinguish between artist-fan relations which are harmed by heteronomy and those which are supported and enriched by them.
