Contextualizing how teens manage personal and interpersonal privacy on social media

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1058-1075
Author(s):  
Ralf De Wolf

Many researchers have been studying teens’ privacy management on social media, and how they individually control information. Employing the theoretical framework of communication privacy management (CPM) theory, I argue that individual information control in itself is desirable but insufficient, giving only a limited understanding of teens’ privacy practices. Instead, I argue that research should focus on both personal and interpersonal privacy management to ultimately understand teens’ privacy practices. Using a survey study ( n = 2000), I investigated the predictors of teens’ personal and interpersonal privacy management on social media and compared different types of boundary coordination. The results demonstrate that feelings of fatalism regarding individual control in a networked social environment, which I call networked defeatism, are positively related with interpersonal privacy management. Also, interpersonal privacy management is less important when coordinating boundaries with peers than it is when coordinating sexual materials, and dealing with personal information shared by parents.

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Sofa Sakinah

The development of digital media technology gave rise to social media, especially Instagram which is a site used to exchange information and fulfill social communication needs in various circles. This study specifically analyzes the use of the Close Friend feature found on Instagram social media which is used for various objectives of each user. The research method uses descriptive quantitative content analysis through text analysis from various previous studies related to the use of the Instagram feature. One study showed that the effectiveness of the Instagram feature in increasing adolescent friendships in the digital era was dominant in the Close Friends feature as much as 61.2%. Close friends feature (close friend) was promoted because of the self-disclosure factor, as well as the convenience of users in uploading Instagram stories. The level of openness to the high categorydue to the proximity selecting and content sharing on this feature. The close friends feature is considered more private for Instagram users because they are free to choose their audience and upload based on their needs and desires. It was also mentioned how users manage their privacy when using the Instastory feature on Instagram social media where the privacy management is based on the Communication Privacy Management (CPM) criteria or Communication Privacy Management and is seen in the usage strategy when using the Insta Story feature on Instagram. Informants tend to have different reasons behind their decision to reset their privacy when using their social media.


Author(s):  
Vicky Dianiya

Social media is basically to share information and self-disclosures by the account owner. However, there is an attitude of caution in expressing which must also be considered and needs to be considered. Technological developments make more and more new features appear on various social media platforms, one of them is the close friend feature on Instagram that can be used to limit users in sharing information that is considered more privacy. This study uses the Communication Privacy Management theory as a framework for investigating how Instagram users, especially young adults, use and respond to the use of the close friend feature. Overall, the results of interviews with five informants found evidence of five basic assumptions in using CPM implied on social media and showed that there is confidence in the disclosure of privacy when using the close friend feature.


2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 845-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Fortier ◽  
Jacquelyn Burkell

Earlier research using qualitative techniques suggests that the default conception of online social networks is as public spaces with little or no expectation of control over content or distribution of profile information. Some research, however, suggests that users within these spaces have different perspectives on information control and distribution. This study uses Q methodology to investigate subjective perspectives with respect to privacy of, and control over, Facebook profiles. The results suggests three different types of social media users: those who view profiles as spaces for controlled social display, exerting control over content or audience; those who treat their profiles as spaces for open social display, exercising little control over either content or audience; and those who view profiles as places to post personal information to a controlled audience. We argue that these different perspectives lead to different privacy needs and expectations.


2021 ◽  
pp. 009365022199847
Author(s):  
Colleen Warner Colaner ◽  
Alyssa L. Bish ◽  
Maria Butauski ◽  
Alexie Hays ◽  
Haley Kranstuber Horstman ◽  
...  

Open adoption relationships are rife with privacy dilemmas and fuzzy boundaries, which require ongoing coordination of private disclosures as a result. The present study employed communication privacy management (CPM) theory to examine adoptive parents’ ( N = 354) private disclosures with the birth family across in-person and mediated (i.e., texting and social media) contexts. SEM analysis revealed that adoptive families who were more private and were concerned about the birth family sharing private information with others viewed disclosures to the birth family as risky. These privacy concerns related to adoptive parents being more clear with the birth family about preferences for sharing that private information with others. More social media contact between birth and adoptive parents predicted increased perceptions of risk of disclosure to birth parents. Results advance CPM theorizing by underscoring the motivational bases of perceived risk, the importance of anticipated boundary turbulence, and the nuanced privacy management processes within communication modes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-267
Author(s):  
Donna M. Elkins

Working women diagnosed with cancer face difficult decisions about disclosing personal information. A 2017 survey for Cancer and Careers, a non-profit organization assisting cancer patients and survivors with finding and continuing employment, found that women are more likely than men to share their diagnosis with work colleagues, and do so more often to feel supported by co-workers. However, disclosure guidelines for communication about having cancer are difficult to establish, as they may vary widely depending on the individual and the situation. Most research about health self-disclosure has focused on the initial decision to divulge that one has an illness and on the depth of that initial disclosure. The current study was designed to further describe how working women navigate disclosures not only during the initial diagnosis, but throughout treatment and into recovery to gain needed social support. Using the typology of social support and the tenets of Communication Privacy Management Theory, the goal of this study is to share individual narratives of how working women change privacy rules to procure the type of social support needed in each stage of their experience.


Author(s):  
Iman Sumarlan ◽  

This research is motivated by the fact that humans have two strong desires in themselves, namely the desire to be one with each other or other humans around them and the desire to become one with the surrounding natural environment. Privacy is used to express themselves, so someone needs a room that supports these interests. Where each individual sets the distance for closeness with other individuals, and the ability of a person or group to decide when and to whom personal information can be shared, in the way desired by the owner of the information. The purpose of this study was to determine the millennial self-concept in managing privacy information boundaries. The management of privacy information boundaries is discussed in the process of five basic assumptions on the theory of communication privacy management. This research uses constructivist paradigm with descriptive research type. The research method used is phenomenology, data collection techniques in this study were obtained through premier data: in-depth interviews and secondary data through: literature study, documentation sourced in books, journals and the internet. Data validity checking technique used is auhenticity & triangulation (sources). The results of the following research are millennial self-concept in managing privacy information by controlling the privacy information that is collected and collected, then millennial makes boundaries with people who can understand and understand the rules that have been agreed upon, control information that has been shared with others, after that millennial made rules that had been mutually agreed upon in the disclosure of information, and in responding to the occurrence of safety information, 11 millennial informants chose to withdraw and 3 millennial informants maintained a good relationship.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512091561
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Gruzd ◽  
Jenna Jacobson ◽  
Elizabeth Dubois

The article examines whether and how the ever-evolving practice of using social media to screen job applicants may undermine people’s trust in the organizations that are engaging in this practice. Using a survey of 429 participants, we assess whether their comfort level with cybervetting can be explained by the factors outlined by Petronio’s communication privacy management theory: culture, gender, motivation, and risk-benefit ratio. We find that respondents from India are significantly more comfortable with social media screening than those living in the United States. We did not find any gender-based differences in individuals’ comfort with social media screening, which suggests that there may be some consistent set of norms, expectations, or “privacy rules” that apply in the context of employment seeking—irrespective of gender. As a theoretical contribution, we apply the communication privacy management theory to analyze information that is publicly available, which offers a unique extension of the theory that focuses on private information. Importantly, the research suggests that privacy boundaries are not only important when it comes to private information, but also with information that is publicly available on social media. The research identifies that just because social media data are public, does not mean people do not have context-specific and data-specific expectations of privacy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Nadya Kartika Lumban Tobing

Technological development like social media has been affecting the openness of communication privacy management of its users. As a result of web development from web 2.0 to web 4.0, social media has gone through changes starting with the operational aspect of the applications, the distribution of information in the form of texts, images, and videos, the relation of interaction among users, to the relation between users and the engine of the applications (symbiotic web). The engine recommends users to work based on the results of how the users’ personal data is processed, and by implication affects social media users’ personal data management. Pervasive computing (easy access and connecting devices anywhere and anytime), symbiotic web (symbiotic relationships of people and devices), emotive web (emotional feelings), and ubiquitous computing (computers are everywhere) become part of web-based social media 4.0. The purpose of this study was to find out what factors of the four web 4.0-based social media concepts that most influence the privacy management of social media users' communications. This research method uses quantitative approach and survey method on 324 respondents taken through saturated samples. The result of this study is a significant influence on web-based social media 4.0 on the privacy management of social media users' communications. The concept of emotive web becomes the most influential variable towards the changes in communication privacy management. Perkembangan teknologi seperti media sosial telah memengaruhi keterbukaan manajemen privasi komunikasi penggunanya. Perkembangan dari web 2.0 hingga web 4.0, media sosial mengalami perubahan mulai dari operasional aplikasi, distribusi informasi dari teks, gambar, dan video, hubungan interaksi antara sesama pengguna, hingga hubungan pengguna dengan mesin aplikasi (symbiotic web). Mesin memberi rekomendasi kepada pengguna untuk bekerja berdasarkan pengolahan data diri pengguna dan secara tidak langsung telah memengaruhi pengelolaan data pribadi pengguna media sosial. Pervasive computing (memudahkan akses dan menghubungkan perangkat dimana saja dan kapan saja), symbiotic web (hubungan simbiosis manusia dan perangkat), emotive web (perasaan emosi), dan ubiquitous computing (komputer berada dimana saja) menjadi bagian dari media sosial berbasis web 4.0. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui faktor apa saja dari keempat konsep media sosial berbasis web 4.0 yang paling memengaruhi manajemen privasi komunikasi pengguna media sosial. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan metode survei terhadap 324 responden yang diambil melalui sampel jenuh. Hasil penelitian ini adalah adanya pengaruh signifikan pada media sosial berbasis web 4.0 terhadap manajemen privasi komunikasi pengguna media sosial. Konsep emotive web, yaitu konsep yang membuat pengguna media sosial dapat membagikan emosi mereka secara daring  menjadi variabel yang sangat berpengaruh terhadap perubahan manajemen privasi komunikasi.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Ratna Nurlaila

Penelitian ini mengkaji akun BagiKata di media sosial Line yang merupakan layanan konsultasi daring guna mengetahui lebih dalam faktor-faktor yang muncul saat user BagiKata berkonsultasi daring dan bagaimana user berkonsultasi, berterus terang dan mengelola masalah privasinya kepada handler BagiKata di media sosial Line dengan pendekatan teori Communication Privacy Management (CPM). Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian netnografi guna mempelajari komunitas daring pada akun BagiKata di media sosial Line. Penemuan unik dalam penelitian ini adalah bahwa konsultasi daring merupakan hal yang membantu sebagai pertolongan awal (sebelum bertemu pakar) saat user BagiKata merasa terbebani dan perlu berkonsultasi guna melegakan ranah psikis mereka, sebab sifatnya yang relevan dengan Internet of Things (IoT) berupa anonim, nyaman (untuk berterus terang dan berekspresi), cepat, dan berbiaya murah ataupun gratis, memungkinkan pengguna untuk nyaman berterus terang dan mendapatkan layanan di waktu dan tempat yang fleksibel. Temuan lainnya, ada perbedaan antara konsultasi daring dan konsultasi luring di mana berkonsultasi secara langsung dengan pakar lebih holistik sebab menampilkan komunikasi nonverbal seperti      body language, ekspresi, serta intonasi. Dengan adanya konsultasi daring melalui akun BagiKata di media sosial Line, menjadikan posisi pakar dan nonpakar terkadang bias seperti konsep the death of expertise. Penemuan unik lainnya yaitu layanan konsultasi melalui akun Bagikata di media sosial Line dengan menggunakan Bahasa Inggris lebih diharapkan oleh pengguna layanan konsultasi, guna menghindari lebih banyak memori negatif yang tersimpan dalam bahasa ibu.


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