Communication privacy management theory discusses the dialectal tension surrounding private information in families, healthcare, and social media. In families, privacy issues include regulating internet use and relationships with step-families after divorce. Patients may feel insecure sharing private medical information with doctors, who are responsible for keeping it confidential. On social media, people can choose what private information they wish to share.

1. Communication
privacy
management
theory

8. What’s
the
point?

9. The problem is the dialectal tension involved in discussing private information.

10. Dialectal
Tension can be
found in the family,
healthcare, and social
media.

11. In the family, privacy issues range from
regulation of the Internet to new
relationships with step families after
divorce.
Many patients feel insecure about
sharing their private medical information
with their physicians. It is the physician’s
job to keep that information private.
People on social media can choose what
kind of information they are comfortable
sharing.