Where Dating Meets Data: Investigating Social and Institutional Privacy Concerns on Tinder

Lutz, Christoph; Ranzini, Giulia

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3319829

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“…We contribute to this research in the following three ways: first, the self-disclosure construct often used in privacy and self-disclosure research mostly captures depth and/or breadth of disclosure, while omitting other dimensions of self-disclosure 9 : accuracy, intention, and polarity. Second, privacy concerns are often examined without separating organizational and social threats (with few exceptions 10,11 ). We examine the relationship between privacy concerns and self-disclosure using all five dimensions of self-disclosure and two separate constructs of privacy.…”

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confidence: 99%

Privacy Concerns and Self-Disclosure in Private and Public Uses of Social Media

Gruzd

Hernández-García

2018

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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The study contributes to the ongoing debate about the "privacy paradox" in the context of using social media. The presence of a privacy paradox is often declared if there is no relationship between users' information privacy concerns and their online self-disclosure. However, prior research has produced conflicting results. The novel contribution of this study is that we consider public and private self-disclosure separately. The data came from a cross-national survey of 1,500 Canadians. For the purposes of the study, we only examined the subset of 545 people who had at least one public account and one private account. Going beyond a single view of self-disclosure, we captured five dimensions of self-disclosure: Amount, Depth, Polarity, Accuracy, and Intent; and two aspects of privacy concerns: concerns about organizational and social threats. To examine the collected data, we used Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling. Our research does not support the presence of a privacy paradox as we found a relationship between privacy concerns from organizational and social threats and most of the dimensions of self-disclosure (even if the relationship was weak). There was no difference between patterns of self-disclosure on private versus public accounts. Different privacy concerns may trigger different privacy protection responses and, thus, may interact with self-disclosure differently. Concerns about organizational threats increase awareness and accuracy while reducing amount and depth, while concerns about social threats reduce accuracy and awareness while increasing amount and depth.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Privacy Concerns and Self-Disclosure in Private and Public Uses of Social Media

Gruzd

Hernández-García

2018

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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“…Finally, due to the interface designs of dating apps, which highlight users’ profile pictures, dating apps are more visually dominated than dating websites. Lutz and Ranzini (2017) point out similar dating app affordances, and also note the presence of links to other social media accounts as further sources of identification.…”

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confidence: 77%

Looking for “interesting people”: Chinese gay men’s exploration of relationship development on dating apps

Ward²

2019

Mobile Media & Communication

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Mobile dating applications play a prominent role in Chinese gay men’s social lives. Based on in-depth interviews with 21 participants, this study explores how urban gay singles in China develop social relationships on dating apps. It reveals that relationship development is often driven by casual conversations, which are not motivated by clear pragmatic purposes. Casual conversations tend to unfold around common hobbies or experiences, serving as a source of sociability, or satisfaction in socializing itself. In contrast to casual conversations, two forms of conversations are deemed highly instrumental and undesirable: one is the sex-oriented conversation aimed at immediate sexual encounters; the other is the interrogative conversation in which people ask private questions in a nonreciprocal and rigid way. Besides craving sociability, users “relationalize” casual sex by perceiving it as a form of social connection and endowing it with the potential to foster a relationship. This is also reflected in users’ preference for sexual partners with whom they can hold a conversation. Users also exploit the affordances of different media platforms and capture the relationship potential by platform switching. They switch to the mainstream media platform WeChat for more synchronous communication and to collect more identity cues from each other. Platform switching also signals willingness for relationship development and mutual trust. Nevertheless, users keep going back to dating apps for new possibilities for social relationships.

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“…Further to this, concern about issues such as personal safety may depend upon the user's motivation for using the dating site in the first place. For example, Lutz and Ranzini (2017) report that Tinder users who are only interested in casual hook-ups are likely to be less concerned about their personal safety than users who are looking for friendship, or self-validation. This highlights not only a need to consider how security tools might help to protect the user, but also how to educate users of the need to conduct such due diligence in the realm of online dating.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Role of Psychology in Understanding Online Trust

Jones

Moncur

2018

Advances in Digital Crime, Forensics, and Cyber Terrorism

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Across many online contexts, internet users are required to make judgments of trustworthiness in the systems or other users that they are connecting with. But how can a user know that the interactions they engage in are legitimate? In cases where trust is manipulated, there can be severe consequences for the user both economically and psychologically. In this chapter, the authors outline key psychological literature to date that has addressed the question of how trust develops in online environments. Specifically, three use cases in which trust relationships emerge are discussed: crowdfunding, online health forums, and online dating. By including examples of different types of online interaction, the authors aim to demonstrate the need for advanced security measures that ensure valid trust judgments and minimise the risk of fraud victimisation.

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Where Dating Meets Data: Investigating Social and Institutional Privacy Concerns on Tinder

Cited by 17 publications

References 45 publications

Privacy Concerns and Self-Disclosure in Private and Public Uses of Social Media

Privacy Concerns and Self-Disclosure in Private and Public Uses of Social Media

Looking for “interesting people”: Chinese gay men’s exploration of relationship development on dating apps

The Role of Psychology in Understanding Online Trust

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