Interdisciplinary perspective on social media, privacy and empowerment: the role of Media and Communication Studies in technological privacy research Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The article takes an interdisciplinary look at how digital technologies can have an impact on today's society. The field of Media and Communication Studies (MCS), in particular, can help in various ways towards better understanding the re- lationship between social media, privacy and empowerment. We discuss how MCS can enrich technological privacy research on these topics, in the way that it looks at new media as (technological) tools for ...