The Word: Publicy

You’ll have seen this word flying about recently and it’s time for some explanations.

Err… don’t you mean ‘pub­lic­ally’? [’publicly’ if you’re American]

No. Well, in some ways, yes, I do. Let me explain.

In the past, there has been an assump­tion that privacy was the default state of human exist­ence. It was only when

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25/​M/​S or Maybe Not

via Richard Sambrook and David Brain, here’s a great present­a­tion from the Lift con­fer­ence, given by Genevieve Bell, who works as an anthro­po­lo­gist at Intel:

It’s about how we all lie online in terms of the way we present ourselves, or rather, that we’ve been lying about ourselves for an awful long time

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