SBE: Small: Security as an Everyday Practical Concern

新闻报道充斥着数据泄露、网络安全问题以及将个人信息保存在网上的危险。然而，现代生活让我们无法避免这样做。我们是否在网上购物、与银行沟通、申请政府服务或报税，几乎不再是一个选择——这是标准的期望。本研究探讨了人们如何解决这两种现实之间的紧张关系，以及人们为平衡对他们的竞争需求而采取的做法。目标是了解人们如何通过两种方式管理在线安全。第一种是对潜在问题进行技术修复；其次是他们如何与潜在的风险达成协议，并为特定的在线工作方式制定策略、住宿和理由。利用人类学和社会学的技术，该项目旨在了解网络安全是人们日常生活的一部分。这项研究将产生两个主要结果。第一个记录了当代数字生活的条件，作为对正在进行的数字技术影响研究的贡献。二是为新技术更充分地保护人们的网络隐私和安全、更容易地与人们的线上线下生活相融合提供基础。

News reports are rife with accounts of data breaches, network security problems, and the dangers of keeping personal information online. Modern life, though, makes it impossible to avoid doing just that. It is almost no longer a choice whether we make purchases, communicate with our bank, apply for government services, or file our taxes online - it is the standard expectation. This research explores how people resolve the tension between these two realities and the practices that people have adopted to balance competing demands upon them.The goal is to understand how people manage security online, in two ways. The first is in the sense of engaging in technical fixes for potential problems; the second is how they come to terms with the potential risks and develop strategies, accommodations, and justifications for particular ways of working online. Using techniques from anthropology and sociology, this project sets out to understand online security as part of people's everyday lives. The research will have two major outcomes. The first to document the conditions of contemporary digital life, as a contribution to ongoing studies of the impact of digital technology. The second is to provide the basis on which new technologies can more adequately protect people's privacy and security online, and more easily integrate with people's online and offline practices.