How teens negotiate privacy on social media proactively and reactively

Abstract

Privacy management can be dichotomized into proactive and reactive behaviors. The former indicates avoiding information leakage beforehand. The latter occurs in the form of recovery efforts and it thus involves interpersonal dynamics. Past studies often focus on proactive privacy management without taking social interaction into account. The current study adopts coping and threat appraisal in the Protection Motivation Theory to compare the factors related to distinct types of privacy management with a stratified sample of teenagers in Taiwan (N = 1956). Controlling the pattern of social networking site use, the empirical results highlight the necessity of differentiating the privacy management. In addition, self-efficacy interacted with perceived vulnerability. Teenagers might ignore their vulnerability perceptions when they perceive themselves as having inferior self-efficacy, constituting disengagement from privacy protection. While it is never easy to prevent privacy breaches, suggestions for instructional designs are made on the basis of the behavioral types and empirical results.

The Chilling Effects of Digital Dataveillance: A Theoretical Model and an Empirical Research Agenda

“…Such chilling effects inhibit the exercising of fundamental rights and consequently constitute a subtle, cumulative risk for individual autonomy, well-being, and democratic participation in digital societies (see Véliz, 2020). Chilling effects are not a uniform or inevitable consequence of dataveillance; some people may alternatively or additionally increase the protection of their data (Chou and Chou, 2021) or engage in sousveillance (Mann and Ferenbok, 2013). Chilling effects are one of many processes in a complex system of constantly changing digital communication and are in a sense volatile as well as dependent on further influences, such as dispositions, situations, or type of communication behavior.…”

Understanding Teenage Perceptions and Configurations of Privacy on Instagram

“…Our work aims to add to this literature in two-fold. First, while there are many studies looking at the privacy management of adults (ages 18 and older) on social media [16,33,45,61,66,72], there has been less of a focus on teenagers (ages [13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. This age group is particularly at risk for privacy violations on social media platforms such as being sent explicit content [5,49,68].…”

“…Semi-structured interviews with 166 US teenagers (ages [13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Proposed a new way for understanding privacy on social media: networked privacy Agosto and Abbas (2017) [4]…”

“…While there is a rich body of literature exploring how and why users manage their privacy on social media, most of these studies [2,24,26,33,56,64,65,67,70] have focused on young adults (18+) as opposed to teenagers, which we define as individuals between the ages of 13-19. Of the work that has explored teenagers' privacy on social media, key factors that emerged include the ability to limit access to content and to utilize strategic vagueness, as well as the importance of social norms in influencing privacy behaviors. However, these studies have explored privacy either broadly on social media, not looking into any platform in particular [3,4,20,47,71], or on Facebook [18,25,29,34]-a platform that is no longer the most commonly used by teenagers [6].…”

“…Through a series of semi-structured interviews with teenagers (ages [13][14][15][16][17][18][19], we investigate how and why teens configure privacy on Instagram by addressing the following questions:…”