Public Realm, Privacy and the Scholars’ Lifeworld—Reloaded : An Unintentional Voyeur in a Russian Kitchen

Mester, Béla (2023) Public Realm, Privacy and the Scholars’ Lifeworld—Reloaded : An Unintentional Voyeur in a Russian Kitchen. In: Borderology : Spatial Perspective, Theoretical and Practical. Key Challenges in Geography . Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 199-208. ISBN 978-3-031-29719-9

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Abstract

In the second year of the pandemic, a lot of experiences accumulated in the field of the online academic life. They are not restricted to the technological skills and to a new wave of the sensibility towards the questions of safety, digital privacy and polities of the usage of big data and personal data. However, these new experiences seriously touch new-type problems of the scholars’ lifeworld; this aspect is usually hidden in the theoretical reflections. The publications in the discourse about the new digital environment of the academic life usually focus on technological problems and safety questions linked with them, the aspects of our right for privacy appear in another meaning, as well. In the online conferences and meetings, a whale of private visual information was published what was never available in this uncontrolled form before. The last word of the title refers to the kitchens of the Russian colleagues in Moscow and Murmansk what were not visible by me before the pandemic circumstances. In the time of the pandemic, we were witnesses and participants of a virtual border-crossing, in the same time, being on a new border-line between the private and public spheres. The aim of this chapter is to offer a description of this border-line situation from a special, but symptomatic aspect of the academic life that is the experience of the online conferences.

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