Essay On Privacy Management Theory

Description of Theory: Communication Privacy Management Theory There are many different types of theories when it comes to Interpersonal Communications. One of those theories is Communication Privacy Management Theory, also known as CPM, by Sandra Petronio. This theory contains three main parts and is a description of a privacy management system everyone needs to be aware of. The first main part of this system is privacy ownership. Privacy ownership consists of boundaries that surround ones information that they have that other’s do not. These boundaries can be either small and penetrable or thick and unbreakable. These boundaries help the owner of this private information keep this information secure and secret. The next part of the Communication Privacy Management Theory …show more content…
This part of the theory reshapes the boundaries originally set in the privacy ownership section of this theory. The last and third part of this theory is privacy turbulence. This part only comes in to effect when managing private information does not go the way the one with privacy ownership expected. This part also consists of five principals. The first four discuss privacy ownership and control while the last one discuses privacy turbulence. These principals appear easy to follow but the management process is quite complex. All of these steps are meant to help protect the one with privacy ownership and the information they wish to keep to one’s self or protect. But this process can very easily be ruined because of human error or the one with privacy ownerships decision to not follow this process exactly. Everyone has used the Communication Privacy Management Theory to some extent even if they don’t realize it. But with the knowledge of this theory and this process in hand those with privacy ownership can know how to handle giving up some control by following the second step privacy control and what to do if things do not go as