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Technology has influenced human lives since the beginning of mankind. Sociologists have described the effects that technology has on society as structuring or symbolic. We will use the same concepts to investigate the capability of the Internet to influence privacy. We analyse the structuring and symbolic effects of technology on privacy and thereby demonstrate some potentials of Internet technology and their effect on our life in society
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Zuccato, A., Fischer-Hübner, S. (2005). Symbolic and Structuring Effects of the Internet on Privacy. In: Berleur, J., Avgerou, C. (eds) Perspectives and Policies on ICT in Society. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 179. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-25588-5_16
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