Communication Privacy Management and Self-Disclosure on Social Media - A Case of Facebook

Social Media Websites are used by individuals to find new friends, (re)connect with old friends, family and relatives, maintain relationships, share information, join groups, create and manage events, pass time, and much more. While many users consistently engage in disclosing their personal information on social media, several others hold themselves back due to privacy concerns. This study employs communication privacy management theory as a theoretical framework to examine the effects of individual motives, communication privacy management practices (boundary ownership, and boundary permeability) and privacy concerns on the amount and depth of self-disclosure on Facebook. Results of Partial Least Square Analysis using a sample of 240 respondents provide evidence that individuals’ communication privacy management practices influences the amount and depth of their self-disclosure. Implications for practice and future research areas are also discussed. _x000D_ _x000D

Conceptualization and operationalization: utility of communication privacy management theory

Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory explains one of the most important, yet challenging social processes in everyday life, that is, managing disclosing and protecting private information. The CPM privacy management system offers researchers, students, and the public a comprehensive approach to the complex and fluid character of privacy management in action. Following an overview of Communication Privacy Management framework, this review focuses on recent research utilizing CPM concepts that cross a growing number of contexts and illustrates the way people navigate privacy in action. Researchers operationalize the use of privacy rules and other core concepts that help describe and explain the ups and downs of privacy management people encounter

Mobile communication privacy management in romantic relationships : a dialectical approach

Abstract: Communication technologies, such as the mobile phone, often represent a double-edged sword in romantic relationships. While the mobile phone can enhance the quality of communication, it can simultaneously become a source of conflict. The dialectic framework of communication privacy management offers a nuanced lens from which to investigate rules for the use of the mobile phone in the dyadic of romantic relationships. This study investigates mobile phone usage rules that are negotiated by adolescents and young adults in romantic relationships. The study specifically focuses on rules around mobile privacy management. Findings from in-depth interviews indicate that the negotiation of rules is a crucial part of young adult relationships. Enhancing trust and fostering harmony were important factors in the rule development process. The implications, limitations, and future possibilities for research are discusse

Navigating Ethics of Physician-Patient Confidentiality: A Communication Privacy Management Analysis

The ethics of physician-patient confidentiality is often fraught with contradictions. Privacy boundaries are not always clear, and patients can leave an interaction with their physicians feeling uncomfortable about the security of their private medical information. The best way to meet confidentiality and privacy management expectations that patients have may not be readily apparent. Without realizing it, a physician may communicate a patient's information in ways that are inconsistent with that person's perceptions of how his/her medical information should be treated. A proposed model is presented as a tool for physicians to better serve the privacy and confidentiality needs of their patients. This model depends on the communication privacy management (CPM) perspective that emerged from a 35-year research program investigating how people regulate and control information they consider private and confidential. A physician's use of this model enables the ability to establish a confidentiality pledge that can address issues in understanding the best way to communicate about privacy management with patients and more likely overcome potential negative outcomes

Communication privacy management of students in Latvia

The lack of communication privacy boundaries among students and the fault of self-disclosure are two main reasons for unforeseen distress, broken relationships and trust, vulnerability and conflicts in universities. Based on S. Petronio’s theory of communication privacy management this research investigates the interaction of domestic students and foreign students in Latvia with their peers in order to set up privacy and disclosure boundaries that do not violate peer privacy, especially in a sensitive multicultural context. In fact, the presence of private information and the willingness to disclose it is often confronted with numerous privacy dilemmas and issues regarding their secureness, especially in universities where peers are young with different cultural backgrounds. This article analyzes the privacy management skills of locals and foreigners and reveals how security of information is managed between them stemming from social penetration and communication privacy management theory. Privacy management is significant in facing the dilemma of communication privacy and facilitates solving already existing problems of privacy among student

Exploring the relationship between user's intention to manage privacy in osn and the factors of communication under distress

Understanding and analyzing privacy is a challenging task in that interpretations of privacy involve investigating complex social relationships in many different social occasions. In online social networks (OSNs), user experience of privacy also is deeply related to who sends what message to whom through what kind of interaction mechanism. In this paper, we interpret the idea of privacy management in the context of communication under distress in terms of emotions, cognitions, and beliefs. Communication privacy management theory was examined for establishing and modeling relationship between the context and users’ behavior of managing their privacy in OSNs. A user survey was conducted using a comprehensive set of questions measuring salient research constructs. Through a set of analytical techniques of dimension reduction and causal modeling, we built a causal model. Our interpretation of distressful context resulted in a set of research constructs with strong prediction; unwillingness to communicate, willingness to communicate, active self-disclosure, and passive self-disclosure. This paper will make contributions in two folds offering; 1) a quantitative interpretation of context criteria in communication privacy management theory, and 2) better understanding of OSN users’ behavior in regards to managing their privacy