Project Details
Projekt
Privacy and the Gaze of the Other in American Suburbs, Media, and Online Cultures, 1950 to the Present (A05)
Subject Area
European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
Term
from 2019 to 2020
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 394775490
The subproject investigates transformations of privacy in the USA during the 20th and 21st centuries using techniques of self-monitoring and the surveillance of others. Thus the aim is to determine both the changes in the understanding of privacy in general and the influence of forms of individual and collective vigilance on the development of a specifically American confessional culture. Two phenomena are of particular relevance: privacy in the American suburbs of the 1950s as well as techniques of self-observation and self-presentation by means of talk shows, memoirs (from the 1990s to the present day) and internet blogs (#MeToo).
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Applicant Institution
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Project Head
Dr. Bärbel Harju
