61 research outputs found
More Than Just Privacy: Using Contextual Integrity to Evaluate the Long-Term Risks from COVID-19 Surveillance Technologies
The global coronavirus pandemic has raised important questions regarding how to balance public health concerns with privacy protections for individual citizens. In this essay, we evaluate contact tracing apps, which have been offered as a technological solution to minimize the spread of COVID-19. We argue that apps such as those built on Google and Appleâs âexposure notification systemâ should be evaluated in terms of the contextual integrity of information flows; in other words, the appropriateness of sharing health and location data will be contextually dependent on factors such as who will have access to data, as well as the transmission principles underlying data transfer. We also consider the role of prevailing social and political values in this assessment, including the large-scale social benefits that can be obtained through such information sharing. However, caution should be taken in violating contextual integrity, even in the case of a pandemic, because it risks a long-term loss of autonomy and growing function creep for surveillance and monitoring technologies
Teens, Video Games, and Civics
Analyzes survey findings on trends in teenagers' video gaming, the social context, the role of parents and monitoring, and the link between specific gaming experiences and civic activities. Explores gaming's potential as civic learning opportunities
Cultivating Social Resources on Social Network Sites: Facebook Relationship Maintenance Behaviors and Their Role in Social Capital Processes
This study explores the relationship between perceived bridging social capital and specific Facebookâenabled communication behaviors using survey data from a sample of U.S. adults (N=614). We explore the role of a specific set of Facebook behaviors that support relationship maintenance and assess the extent to which demographic variables, time on site, total and âactualâ Facebook Friends, and this new measure (Facebook Relationship Maintenance Behaviors) predict bridging social capital. Drawing upon scholarship on social capital and relationship maintenance, we discuss the role of social grooming and attentionâsignaling activities in shaping perceived access to resources in one's network as measured by bridging social capital.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108031/1/jcc412078.pd
Boundary Regulation Processes and Privacy Concerns With (Non-)Use of Voice-Based Assistants
An exemplar of human-machine communication, voice-based assistants (VBAs) embedded in smartphones and smart speakers simplify everyday tasks while collecting significant data about users and their environment. In recent years, devices using VBAs have continued to add new features and collect more dataâin potentially invasive ways. Using Communication Privacy Management theory as a guiding framework, we analyze data from 11 focus groups with 65 US adult VBA users and nonusers. Findings highlight differences in attitudes and concerns toward VBAs broadly and provide insights into how attitudes are influenced by device features. We conclude with considerations for how to address boundary regulation challenges inherent in human-machine interactions
A contextual approach to information privacy research
In this position article, we synthesize various knowledge gaps in information privacy scholarship and propose a research agenda that promotes greater crossâdisciplinary collaboration within the iSchool community and beyond. We start by critically examining Westin\u27s conceptualization of information privacy and argue for a contextual approach that holds promise for overcoming some of Westin\u27s weaknesses. We then highlight three contextual considerations for studying privacyâdigital networks, marginalized populations, and the global contextâand close by discussing how these considerations advance privacy theorization and technology design
Strengthening children's privacy literacy through contextual integrity
Researchers and policymakers advocate teaching children about digital privacy, but privacy literacy has not been theorized for children. Drawing on interviews with 30 families, including 40 children, we analyze childrenâs perspectives on password management in three contexts -family life, friendship, and education- and develop a new approach to privacy literacy grounded in Nissenbaumâs contextual integrity framework. Contextual integrity equates privacy with appropriate flows of information, and we show how childrenâs perceptions of the appropriateness of disclosing a password varied across contexts. We explain why privacy literacy should focus on norms rather than rules and discuss how adults can use learning moments to strengthen childrenâs privacy literacy. We argue that equipping children to make privacy-related decisions serves them better than instructing them to follow privacy-related rules
Online Identity Construction and Expectation of Future Interaction
Abstract While the growing popularity of social network sites (SNSs
Beyond the #justice hashtags: Understanding digital participation after police-involved Deaths
How is justice expressed through tweets in the context of events that reflect police violence against citizens? What is the impact of using different methods for detecting relevant content?
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