Grounding Privacy in Mediated Communication

Abstract

This paper addresses interpersonal privacy coordination in the context of mediated communication, emphasizing the dialectic and dynamic nature of privacy. We contribute the Privacy Grounding Model − built upon the Common Ground theory − that describes how connected individuals create and adapt privacy borders dynamically and in a collaborative process. We present the theoretical foundations of the model. We also show the applicability of the model, where we give evidence from two case studies that illustrate how it can describe privacy coordination among users of an instant messaging application and a desktop awareness system. More generally, we believe designers can use the Privacy Grounding Model to reflect on how their system supports or fails to support people's lightweight privacy coordination mechanisms, and in particular how communicators within the system create and use privacy border representations as common ground. Finally we briefly consider the design of interactive and lightweight privacy grounding mechanisms.

Too close to lie to you: investigating availability management on multiple communication tools across different social relationships

“…People have various degrees of common ground with interactants with whom they have different social relationships, which may lead to the practice of availability management and the use of butler lies. Moreover, scholars have indicated that the coordination and mediation of interpersonal privacy and privacy boundaries in mediated communication depends on how interactants interact with each other and reach a mutual understanding regarding desired privacy disclosure (Romero et al, 2013). Overall, our study aimed to investigate how common ground shared with different social ties moderates people's privacy disclosure in their practice of availability management or use of butler lies.…”

“…The complexity of availability management is related to the difficulty of maintaining online privacy when users employ multiple communication tools to connect with their social networks. Users face difficulties in managing their availability for communication with different users on various apps (Romero et al, 2013). Because availability management is a socio-informatic practice, availability information may be perceived as users' online privacy negotiated through their constant entry into and exit from interactions with different networks on different apps.…”

“…The complexity of availability management is related to the difficulty of maintaining online privacy when users employ multiple communication tools to connect with their social networks. Users face difficulties in managing their availability for communication with different users on various apps (Romero et al. , 2013).…”

PryMeVis: Uma ferramenta para Modelagem de Design de Privacidade

“…Com o objetivo de apoiar designers em suas decisões sobre aspectos de privaci-dade a serem considerados no design de RSOs, modelos conceituais são propostos, como o de [Romero et al 2013] e o de [Epstein et al 2015]. O primeiro consiste em um modelo que visa apoiar o design de mecanismos que permitem ao indivíduo coordenar sua privacidade enquanto comunica com outro usuário em um canal exclusivo, em RSOs, considerando especificamente sua disponibilidade para comunicação.…”