Understanding the Sensibility of Social Media Use and Privacy with Bangladeshi Facebook Group Users

Sultana, Sharifa; Saha, Pratyasha; Hasan, Shaid; Alam, S.M. Raihanul; Akter, Rokeya; Islam, Md. Mofizul; Arnob, Raihan Islam; Al-Ameen, Mahdi Nasrullah; Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque

doi:10.1145/3378393.3402235

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“…Our work also joins the growing body of privacy and empowerment literature in CSCW and social computing. Many of the prior works point to the tension where users often need to negotiate between their privacy and their capabilities and values, including access to information, receiving quality healthcare and engaging with solidarity networks [5,6,11,52,66,102,125,131,133]. In our work, we also found such a tension.…”

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confidence: 55%

“…A recent survey on Bangladeshi Facebook users informed that people prefer to subscribe to the groups where they could participate in recreational, educational and professional conversations, and share opinions on local and global affairs, national, and ethnic concerns, religion, gender justice, and e-commerce [125]. We borrowed insights from this work and further interviewed our participants to investigate what happens when people in the Global South access online social spaces, how they form virtual communities and maintain those, and how they sustain their broader agenda of communionship.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We extend this body of literature through an interview study. A recent survey on Bangladeshi Facebook users informed that people prefer to subscribe to the groups where they could participate in recreational, educational and professional conversations, and share opinions on local and global affairs, national and ethnic concerns, religion, gender justice, and e-commerce [125]. The researchers' lived experience also informed us that often specific interest group admins investigated the personal page of the applicants who requested for a membership in these groups and discarded their requests if the admins found suspicious posts on their profile or in other groups they had joined in common.…”

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Imagined Online Communities: Communionship, Sovereignty, and Inclusiveness in Facebook Groups

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Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Through Facebook "Group" feature, users often sensitize communionships, join different Facebook groups, and establish imagined communities with known people and strangers. In our interview study with 32 admins and users of Facebook groups, we explored the influential factors of such communionships, the challenges the Facebook group admins face while managing these communities, and how they resolve those. Our findings show that admins set rules for the entry and maintenance of the groups, monitor members' activities, and often limit their actions or mute them during conflicts. Thus, the members and admins of the groups together grow a sensibility of sovereignty within the community on Facebook. While the imagined sovereignty in Facebook groups is empowering, this empowerment may not be perceived and experienced evenly by everyone in such online communities. To explain this, we build on the concept of "Imagined Communities' by Benedict Anderson [16 ] and argue that there is a tension between Facebook admins' perceived sovereignty and other users' empowerment in practice. Our work joins the body of CSCW literature that aims at designing more sustainable and collaborative tools for specific communities on Facebook groups and other similar platforms.

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“…In recent years, the use of online social networks has experienced a sharp rise in many developing countries, including Bangladesh [32,76]. Not only the young and tech-savvy population, but also relatively older and less-educated users in Bangladesh have started to get the benefits of online social networking.…”

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“…The studies around privacy have predominantly been influenced by Western liberal values, including the early work of Warren and Brandeis [80], and Westin's call for freedom from surveillance [83], where a large body of prior works examined the privacy issues in the USA. However, the recent literature [24,59,62] suggest that privacy is contextual, where we need a situated understanding to explore the design and policy practices; the studies [3,5,6,8,38,76] conducted in Bangladesh (a developing country located in South Asia) demonstrated the importance of focusing more on digital technology users and privacy issues in developing countries. To this end, we included both USA, and Bangladesh in our study.…”

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“We, three brothers have always known everything of each other”: A Cross-cultural Study of Sharing Digital Devices and Online Accounts

Al-Ameen

Kocabas

Nandy

et al. 2021

Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

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Although many technologies assume that a device or an account would be used by a single user, prior research has found that this assumption may not hold true in everyday life. Most studies conducted to date focused on sharing a device or account with the members in a household. However, there is a dearth in existing literature to understand the contexts of sharing devices and accounts, which may extend to a wide range of personal, social, and professional settings. Further, people’s sharing behavior could be impacted by their social background. To this end, our paper presents a qualitative study with 59 participants from three different countries: Bangladesh, Turkey, and USA, where we investigated the sharing of digital devices (e.g., computer, mobile phone) and online accounts, in particular, financial and identity accounts (e.g., email, social networking) in various contexts, and with different entities - not limited to the members in a household. Our study reveals users’ perceptions of risks while sharing a device or account, and their access control strategies to protect privacy and security. Based on our analysis, we shed light on the interplay between users’ sharing behavior and their demographics, social background, and cultural values. Taken together, our findings have broad implications that advance the PETS community’s situated understanding of sharing devices and accounts.

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Understanding User Behavior, Information Exposure, and Privacy Risks in Managing Old Devices

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Tamanna

Nandy

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HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust

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Understanding the Sensibility of Social Media Use and Privacy with Bangladeshi Facebook Group Users

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Imagined Online Communities: Communionship, Sovereignty, and Inclusiveness in Facebook Groups

Imagined Online Communities: Communionship, Sovereignty, and Inclusiveness in Facebook Groups

“We, three brothers have always known everything of each other”: A Cross-cultural Study of Sharing Digital Devices and Online Accounts

Understanding User Behavior, Information Exposure, and Privacy Risks in Managing Old Devices

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