Teens’ concern for privacy when using social networking sites: An analysis of socialization agents and relationships with privacy-protecting behaviors

Feng, Yang; Xie, Wenjing

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.01.009

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“…The students are worried about their instructors being able to see their personal comments (40%) and possibly misunderstanding them. This finding is consistent with previous research, which reports that students' privacy concerns may hinder SNS use in education (Feng & Xie, 2014). …”

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What do students think about SNS in education? University students’ perceptions, expectations and concerns regarding educational uses of SNS

Akçayır

2017

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Social network sites (SNSs) have become a popular technology in recent years and are currently used in educational environments. Although SNSs have attracted much scholarly attention, students' experiences with and expectations about SNS uses in education have not been deeply explored. This study investigates educational uses of SNSs by analysing university students' perceptions, experiences, expectations and concerns. A mixed method approach was used. The participants were 206 Turkish university students aged 18-28. As a quantitative data collection tool, Lim and Richardson's (2016) social networking use survey was employed. To better understand the students' perceptions, expectations and concerns about using SNSs for educational purposes, face-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted with 58 participants. The results of the study reveal that the students actively used SNSs for different purposes. The participants also exhibited positive perceptions of SNS use for educational purposes. Among the biggest expectations is that instructors would share materials using SNSs. When the students' general expectations were examined, notably different results were obtained. The greatest concern of the students was that their personal posts could be seen by their instructors.

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“…For example, students tend to regard SNS as social tools rather than as formal teaching tools; thus, they are not always eager to use them for the purpose of formal education (Baran, 2010;Gettman & Cortijo, 2015). Students' privacy concerns are another obstacle to the use of SNSs for educational purposes (Feng & Xie, 2014).…”

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What do students think about SNS in education? University students’ perceptions, expectations and concerns regarding educational uses of SNS

Akçayır

2017

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“…Socio-demographic factors such as gender and age (Baddeley 2011;Castañeda & Montoro, 2007;Milne & Boza 1999;Phelps et al 2000). Numerous studies found that women publish more personal information than men (Acquisti & Gross 2006;Feng & Xie 2014;Fogel & Nehmad 2009;Hoy & Milne 2010;Kolek & Saunders 2008;Tufekci 2008), and rarely adopt privacy protection behavior (Milne, Rohm & Bahl 2004;Sheehan 1999;Yao & Linz 2008). 2.…”

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Factors Affecting Students’ Privacy Paradox and Privacy Protection Behavior

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Zhitomirsky‐Geffet

2017

Open Information Science

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Abstract:In this exploratory study, we investigate the factors affecting two opposite types of online privacy behavior: 1) online privacy paradox, i.e. a mismatch between users' online privacy attitudes and their online privacy behavior; and 2) online privacy protection. To assess these two types of behavior, we devised a new direct scale comprising 25 items explicitly highlighting benefits and risks of the examined behavior. Various factors related to online privacy and anonymity were considered in light of the existing theories on online privacy behavior. To this end, 169 students from different fields of study in Israeli academia were administered closed-ended questionnaires. The multivariate linear regression analysis showed that information science students had a significantly lower tendency toward privacy paradox behavior compared to other students. In addition, we found that as the participants' privacy concern and online privacy selfefficacy increase, their tendency toward privacy paradox behavior decreases. However, surprisingly, there was no significant association between privacy protection behavior and high technical skills or online privacy literacy. This research has social implications for academia and the general public, as it shows that the protection of online privacy does not depend on technical knowledge or complicated tool usage, but rather can be achieved by raising users' online privacy concern and self-efficacy.

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“…[28][29][30][31][32] More recently, the model has been applied to the context of SNSs. 24,33 To protect privacy on SNSs, users can adopt strategies to control what information they would like to disclose and share and with whom, including adjusting their profile visibility, friending, and selfdisclosure. 10 For example, SNS users can make a public profile into a private profile, so their personal information can only be accessed by certain groups of people.…”

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Couldn't or Wouldn't? The Influence of Privacy Concerns and Self-Efficacy in Privacy Management on Privacy Protection

Chen

2015

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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Sampling 515 college students, this study investigates how privacy protection, including profile visibility, selfdisclosure, and friending, are influenced by privacy concerns and efficacy regarding one's own ability to manage privacy settings, a factor that researchers have yet to give a great deal of attention to in the context of social networking sites (SNSs). The results of this study indicate an inconsistency in adopting strategies to protect privacy, a disconnect from limiting profile visibility and friending to self-disclosure. More specifically, privacy concerns lead SNS users to limit their profile visibility and discourage them from expanding their network. However, they do not constrain self-disclosure. Similarly, while self-efficacy in privacy management encourages SNS users to limit their profile visibility, it facilitates self-disclosure. This suggests that if users are limiting their profile visibility and constraining their friending behaviors, it does not necessarily mean they will reduce self-disclosure on SNSs because these behaviors are predicted by different factors. In addition, the study finds an interaction effect between privacy concerns and self-efficacy in privacy management on friending. It points to the potential problem of increased risk-taking behaviors resulting from high self-efficacy in privacy management and low privacy concerns.

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Teens’ concern for privacy when using social networking sites: An analysis of socialization agents and relationships with privacy-protecting behaviors

Cited by 132 publications

References 38 publications

What do students think about SNS in education? University students’ perceptions, expectations and concerns regarding educational uses of SNS

What do students think about SNS in education? University students’ perceptions, expectations and concerns regarding educational uses of SNS

Factors Affecting Students’ Privacy Paradox and Privacy Protection Behavior

Couldn't or Wouldn't? The Influence of Privacy Concerns and Self-Efficacy in Privacy Management on Privacy Protection

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