Context Collapse and Student Social Media Networks

Dennen, Vanessa P.; Rutledge, Stacey A.; Bagdy, Lauren M.; Rowlett, Jerrica Ty; Burnick, Shannon; Joyce, Sarah

doi:10.1145/3097286.3097318

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“…Consistent with Marwick and boyd's work on networked privacy, we found avoiding in-person drama with peers and direct supervision, typically from adults [47], motivates teenagers' desires for privacy. Further, similar to prior work [21,46,47], we confirmed teenagers are also adept at using privacy features to avoid context collapse, which occurs when multiple audiences are combined into one. As a result, users face difficulty navigating between versions of themselves and maintaining authenticity across their different audiences [46].…”

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“…Importantly, definitions of digital trust have become more expansive over time. In contrast to Facebook connections which are typically only people the individual knows in person [21], knowing or having interactions with a potential follower in person is not a prerequisite for trust on Follower to Following Ratio Fig. 2.…”

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“…Within this complex landscape of networked privacy, teenagers must grapple with wanting to share personal information with their friends and establishing an identity on social media while preventing unwanted audiences from seeing their content [4,40]. To navigate these networked publics, teenagers make use of a variety of privacy techniques, including vagueposting [51], direct messaging [8], and secondary accounts [21]. In our work, we update the understandings of teenager perceptions of privacy on social media to encompass visual content platforms.…”

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Understanding Teenage Perceptions and Configurations of Privacy on Instagram

Zhao¹,

Inaba²,

Monroy-Hernández³

2022

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As teenage use of social media platform continues to proliferate, so do concerns about teenage privacy and safety online. Prior work has established that privacy on networked publics, such as social media, is complex, requiring users to navigate not only the technical affordances on the platform but also interpersonal relationships and social norms. We investigate how teenagers think about privacy on the popular imagesharing platform, Instagram. We draw on an online survey (N=144) and semi-structured interviews (N=21) with teenagers, ages 13-19, to gain a better understanding how teenagers configure privacy on the popular image-sharing platform Instagram and why they make these privacy decisions. Finally, based on our findings, we provide design recommendations towards the design of better privacy controls for promoting teenage safety online.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing; Empirical studies in HCI; • Security and privacy → Social aspects of security and privacy.

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Understanding Teenage Perceptions and Configurations of Privacy on Instagram

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Inaba²,

Monroy-Hernández³

2022

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“…Working professionals might deal with context collapse by limiting posts containing personal information, creating different accounts, and avoiding friending those they worked with [54]. As another example, many adolescents manage context collapse by keeping their family members separate from their personal accounts [55]. Other mechanisms for managing context collapse include access-level permission to request friendship, denying friend requests, and unfriending.…”

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Modern Socio-Technical Perspectives on Privacy

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With the popularity of social media, researchers and designers must consider a wide variety of privacy concerns while optimizing for meaningful social interactions and connection. While much of the privacy literature has focused on information disclosures, the interpersonal dynamics associated with being on social media make it important for us to look beyond informational privacy concerns to view privacy as a form of interpersonal boundary regulation. In other words, attaining the right level of privacy on social media is a process of negotiating how much, how little, or when we desire to interact with others, as well as the types of information we choose to share with them or allow them to share about us. We propose a framework for how researchers and practitioners can think about privacy as a form of interpersonal boundary regulation on social media by introducing five boundary types (i.e., relational, network, territorial, disclosure, and interactional) social media users manage. We conclude by providing tools for assessing privacy concerns in social media, as well as noting several challenges that must be overcome to help people to engage more fully and stay on social media.

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“…Today, the ease of sharing one's visual and written representations has expanded the audience who is able to view one's posts. With more than 90% of teenagers using social media daily (PEW, 2018), including 76% using Instagram (NORC, 2017), teens frequently experience unintentional context collapse, which is the mixing of social and familial groups that would otherwise not intersect (Boyd, 2011;Dennen et al, 2017).…”

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Finstagram: High School Students and Their Private Instagram Accounts

Anderson¹

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting

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A rising trend among teenagers are private social media accounts that are held separately from a user's public profile. This research investigated how and why high school students used one type of account, Finsta accounts, and if Finsta account holders view social media use differently from users who do not have Finsta accounts. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from 124 high school students. Students typically defined Finsta accounts as those reserved for close friends and are used for posting rants, illegal activities, explicit photos, and expression of emotion. Advantages of Finsta accounts include safe spaces for teens to express their "real" selves, and disadvantages include lack of full privacy and unwanted sharing. In general, students did not think it is acceptable to post elicit behavior on social media even on Finsta accounts; however, they do not think they are obligated to report such elicit behavior (means from 1.83 to 1.96). Finsta users perceived their roles and obligations differently than their peers who do not have Finsta accounts. Implications include better understanding of how parents and schools can create policies and safeguards for misuse, as well as ways to foster positive use of private social media accounts.

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Context Collapse and Student Social Media Networks

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