القيم التعويضية للخصوصية في الفضاءات الافتراضية

Abstract EN

This research paper discusses the paradox that has made privacy a subject for consideration and the scientific issue.

Firstly, by focusing on the contradictions that occur at the level of use of virtual spaces.

Secondly, it serves to highlight diametric relationship between privacy on the one hand and the rise of freedom of information on the other.

It also opens the discussion to argue how users of social networks voluntarily give up their privacy in exchange for compensatory values and generate different types of capital (social, cultural and economic).

The paper does not seek for the origin of the concept or its chronological evolution.

Rather, itattempts to review a new situation that requires an answer to a range of emergency questions that were addressed in the presentation of this paper based on the interview tool with a sample of users of virtual spaces and based on thematic analysis methods.