Communication Privacy Management Theory

Comm 289 M/W 9:35

Theory: Communication Privacy Management

Log #4

Word Count: Professor Sandra Petronio, in the Department of Communication Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University came up with Communication Privacy Management Theory, which focuses on the information we choose to disclose or keep private that can bring us both risk and rewards. This theory is very worldview and is more interpretive; both cybernetic and socio-cultural. CPM goes into detail about how people own and control their private information by managing privacy rules and describing privacy rules. This theory perfectly describes my situation of what happened to me senior year of high school. The difficult situation included me walking into

He immediately ran up to me and begged me to keep quiet and not to tell Audrey, my closest friend. When I walked into this situation, I was the receiver of the secret while the teller turned out to be my good guy friend who just got caught in a lie. In this situation, the random girl whom I just met didn 't care that I walked in on them making out, because she didn’t care he had a girlfriend. She sat there while Nick explained the situation to me. The gender had an effect on this situation because it wasn 't the random girls fault, but it was the boy. The girl didn’t know he had a girlfriend either, in which why he came up to me first to explain what I just saw. Professor Petronio states that gender has a huge effect on privacy as men and women differ from privacy rules they use, whereas men are often focus on whether the situation is appropriate. In this case, the situation was appropriate for Nick to discuss with me about the violation of privacy because he knew he had to

I got this weird feeling where I didn’t want to see her because it would feel as if I was lying if I pretend like everything was okay. The risk/benefit ratio was at very high cost of getting involved in the drama, but the reward was my moral standing of cheating and how it’s not okay. The catalyst criteria account for times when privacy rules are responsive to needed change. I realized that even though Nick told me not to tell anyone, I had less of a motivation to keep the secret when I saw my friend hurting. I decided to tell her at lunch what I saw the night before. She started crying and freaking out about the whole situation. When the secret got out, and I disobeyed the rules we hit the privacy turbulence in the situation. She immediately called Nick and explained what I told her. He then told her everything that did happen and told her that he was sorry. Even though I was just the messenger and don 't want to hurt anyone, getting in on this secret ended up me getting twisted into the drama. We had to rewrite the rules where only the people who were involved with the situation understood the details and new rules were formed, where we had to defined privacy boundaries. Even though Nick and Audrey broke up, the new rules that we formed together was to keep the whole situation quiet and not let it get around to the whole