Communication Privacy Management Theory By Sandra Petronio

Communication Privacy Management Theory
All human beings have three lives: public, private and secret. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Yesterday, today and tomorrow we have, and will communicate inevitably through multiple channels, because communication is essential to maintaining life. Each person has free will, to choose what to disclose about the self to others and we recognize this concept as part of the Communication Privacy Management theory (CPMT), based on the research of Sandra Petronio. This communication theory research paper will identify the theorist, define the theory, and explain how people reveal and conceal private information in matters of healthcare, relationships and social media.
Sandra Petronio, the theorist, is currently a
This theory will always be a popular topic, because there are constantly new ways, which people are finding to reveal private information. Petronio sees (CPM) theory as a map, which portrays how people navigate privacy (Petronio, 2013). When we share information with others, we use thin and thick filters to disclose it. The thin filters are easy to penetrate, this is public information about the self, while the thick ones are much difficult to penetrate, or sometimes impenetrable, because we use protective barriers to contain private and secret information. Petronio's CPM consists of five core principles: People believe they own and have a right to control their private information, people control their private information through the use of personal privacy rules, when others are told or given access to a person's private information, they become co-owners of that information, co-workers of private information need to negotiate mutually agreeable privacy rules about telling others, and when co-workers of private information don't effectively negotiate and follow mutually held privacy rules, boundary turbulence is the likely result (Petronio, 2013). With this theory, conflict is likely to occur because of dialectical tension, which builds up when two forces collide which each other. For example, permanence vs. change,
Social media is one the many channels, people today share all sorts of information through. It is becoming much common for people to avoid face to face communication, and rather communicate through blogging, email and social applications like Facebook. What people forget sometimes, is that everything that is posted to the internet, weather it gets deleted or not, remains permanent. I personally believe, people reveal more than conceal when it comes to social media. An employee may decide to express a negative comment about his/her job on her Facebook page, if the employer finds out about it, this employee may find themselves terminated the next day. Unfortunately, even if the employee decided to go back and delete the negative comment, there are ways an employer can go back and retrieve such information. Today, more and more employers are using social media to select, and hire prospective employees. Therefore, people should remember to set appropriate privacy boundaries, and be much cautious, when disclosing private information on social