Communication Privacy Management Theory
1. In Principle 2, Petronio cites ive foundational criteria that affect our personal
privacy rules. Which factor most shapes the rules you adopt? Is there one factor
that seems to include or trump the other four?
2. Petronio states that ownership and control of private information don’t always
go together. Can you imagine a situation where you are the sole owner of a secret
yet have no control over its disclosure or discovery?
3. CPM states that those who are privy to private information can avoid bound-
ary turbulence by negotiating mutual privacy rules. Why do you think that many
disclosers and their conidants fail to have this discussion?
4. CPM is a rules theory that is supported by qualitative research. Why would a
quantitative researcher have a problem testing the theory using an experimental
design?
