Fame,Social Media Use,and Ethics |
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| Authors: | Elaine Replogle |
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| Affiliation: | Sociology Department, University of Oregon, 736 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, , Eugene, Oregon, 97403 |
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| Abstract: | This essay addresses two journalists' very public criticism of a blog that chronicles a woman's fight with cancer. I examine the role of fame in this controversy. Are the expectations for maintaining “privacy” actually stricter for people who are not famous? How do shifting boundaries between private and public (exacerbated by social media, which allow anybody to have a “public” persona) and shifting understandings of what constitutes “fame” affect the traditional understandings of what is appropriate to share? |
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| Keywords: | boundaries ethics fame illness privacy social media |
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