scholarly journals Networked Privacy Beyond the Individual: Four Perspectives to ‘Sharing’

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Airi Lampinen
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Boundary Regulation ◽  
The Individual

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Synthesizing prior work, this paper provides conceptual grounding for understanding the dialectic of challenges and opportunities that social network sites present to social life. With the help of the framework of interpersonal boundary regulation, this paper casts privacy as something people do, together, instead of depicting it as a characteristic or a possession. I illustrate interpersonal aspects of networked privacy by outlining four perspectives to ‘sharing’. These perspectives call for a rethink of networked privacy beyond an individual’s online endeavors.</span></p></div></div></div>

Rights and Responsibilities Online: A Paradox for Our Times

First Monday ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan F. Fanton
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Game Players ◽  
The Individual

The Internet is hailed as a democratic force freeing people from inherited orthodoxy and hierarchy. Yet some observers and visitors of virtual worlds decry the absence of the individual rights we have come to expect in a democratic society. This paradox of the Internet’s democratic promise and lack of democratic protections raises vexing legal issues. What are the rights and responsibilities of owners and users of digital media, profilers on social network sites, game players and participants in virtual worlds of all types? These issues must be addressed if the power of community is to be realized in a just and sustainable way.

Cyberbullying in a boundary blurred working life

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecka Cowen Forssell
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Life Context ◽  
Depth Interviews

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore what characterizes cyberbullying when it is performed in digital space and in an increasingly boundary blurred working life context.Design/methodology/approachCyberbullying is explored through the lens of Erving Goffman’s theories on everyday life interaction and social media scholars understanding of social life on the internet today. The empirical material for the study is grounded in eight in-depth interviews with individuals who have been subjected to cyberbullying behavior in their professional life. The interview data were analyzed by means of thematic analysis.FindingsThree key themes were identified: spatial interconnectedness, colliding identities and the role of the audience. The empirical data indicate that in order to understand cyberbullying in working life, it is necessary to consider the specific context that emerges with social network sites and blogs. Moreover, this study shows how social network sites tend to blur boundaries between the private and the professional for the targeted individual.Originality/valueCyberbullying in working life is a relatively under-researched area. Most existing research on cyberbullying follows the tradition of face-to-face bullying by addressing the phenomenon with quantitative methods. Given the limited potential of this approach to uncover new and unique features, this study makes an important contribution by exploring cyberbullying with a qualitative approach that provides in-depth understanding of the new situations that emerge when bullying is performed online.

scholarly journals Why Youth Heart Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
danah boyd
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
The United States ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Networked Publics

Social network sites like MySpace and Facebook serve as networked publics. As with unmediated publics like parks and malls, youth use networked publics to gather, socialize with their peers, and make sense of and help build the culture around them. This article examines American youth engagement in networked publics and considers how properties unique to such mediated environments (e.g., persistence, searchability, replicability, and invisible audiences) affect the ways in which youth interact with one another. Ethnographic data is used to analyze how youth recognize these structural properties and find innovative ways of making these systems serve their purposes. Issues like privacy and impression management are explored through the practices of teens and youth participation in social network sites is situated in a historical discussion of youth's freedom and mobility in the United States.

Usage of Social Media by Children and Teenagers

2013 ◽  
pp. 144-178
Author(s):  
Anca Velicu ◽  
Valentina Marinescu
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Parental Mediation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
European Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Complex Influence

This chapter presents the results of EU Kids Online II project about the children’s and adolescent’s uses of the social network sites. The results showed both the main differences and similarities regarding this issue both at the European and at the country (i.e. Romania) level. Although at the European level one can notice the emergence of different groups of users, in Romania, the use of the Internet is only at the beginning and has no clear pattern. The individual characteristics in the self-efficacy variant positively vary with the using of SNS and, at the same time, none of the negative individual characteristics predicts the possessing of a profile on a social network. The strongest connection exists between having competences regarding the use of the Internet and owning a profile on a social network. Moreover, the results agree with previous researches that highlight a complex influence of the parental mediation on the social behaviors.

Usage of Social Media by Children and Teenagers

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-151
Author(s):  
Anca Velicu ◽  
Valentina Marinescu
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Parental Mediation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
European Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Complex Influence

This chapter presents the results of EU Kids Online II project about the children's and adolescent's uses of the social network sites. The results showed both the main differences and similarities regarding this issue both at the European and at the country (i.e. Romania) level. Although at the European level one can notice the emergence of different groups of users, in Romania, the use of the Internet is only at the beginning and has no clear pattern. The individual characteristics in the self-efficacy variant positively vary with the using of SNS and, at the same time, none of the negative individual characteristics predicts the possessing of a profile on a social network. The strongest connection exists between having competences regarding the use of the Internet and owning a profile on a social network. Moreover, the results agree with previous researches that highlight a complex influence of the parental mediation on the social behaviors.

scholarly journals “I Want to See Those Memories”: Social Affordances of Mobile Phone Cameras and Social Network Sites in Collegiate Drinking

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-197
Author(s):  
Gilbert Quintero ◽  
Henry Bundy ◽  
Michelle Grocke
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
College Drinking ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Social Affordances

Alcohol use remains a prominent feature of American collegiate social life. Emerging technological developments, particularly the proliferation of mobile phone cameras and the easy sharing of digital images on social network sites (SNS), are now widely integrated into these drinking practices. This article presents an exploratory study examining how 40 students on a midsized college campus in the interior Pacific Northwest incorporate these technologies into their drinking activities. Data from semistructured interviews are considered within the theoretical framework of “affordances,” which classifies material technologies (camera phones, SNS) as simultaneously inhabiting the role of artifact shaped by human action and of object that influences human conduct. Our data suggest that although contemporary college drinking reflects long-standing practices, cameras, digital images, and social media introduce new dimensions to college alcohol consumption and memory-making processes. These technologies are used to chronicle and archive the festive, social aspects of drinking; commemorate the good times that make up the college experience; and capture proud or incautious displays of excessive drinking. Our examination of emergent college drinking practices seeks to extend understandings of contemporary trends in collegiate alcohol use beyond the discourse of risk and indiscretion to include other important social and cultural dimensions of these phenomena, including pro-social aspects of these practices and the social affordances provided by digital image sharing and reminiscing.

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