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Imagined communities: Awareness, information sharing, and privacy on the Facebook

Along with Barnes (2006), Acquisti and Gross provide one of the first studies of Facebook, privacy and youth. They were also the first to identify Facebook as a privacy threat due to its large database of user information combined with … Continue reading

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Unpacking “privacy” for a networked world

Writing from in the tradition of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), before the mass adoption and popularization of SNS, Palen and Dourish anticipate many of the contemporary privacy issues and demonstrate through case studies that many current privacy and DMS issues … Continue reading

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The work of watching one another: Lateral surveillance, risk, and governance

Combining theory with contemporary examples such as Google searches, online verification services and DIY investigative tools, Andrejevic introduces the concept of “lateral surveillance,” or peer monitoring, where individuals employ the same strategies used by police or marketers in order to … Continue reading

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A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States

In this article, based on a classroom attitudinal survey of 65 American undergraduates, Barnes identifies the “privacy paradox,” a concept that framed much of the early, youth-focused privacy research on SNS. The privacy paradox is based on the perceived difference … Continue reading

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The cost of (anti-)social networks: Identity, agency and neo-luddites

Writing during the heyday of generally unreflective excitement about the revolutionary potential of the internet and “Web 2.0,” Bigge provides one of the first academic critiques of SNS. He presents a nuanced argument for an alternative perspective on SNS that … Continue reading

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Collective information practice: Exploring privacy and security as social and cultural phenomena

Dourish and Anderson provide a comprehensive overview of HCI perspectives on privacy and security (in other words, understanding privacy and security in terms of how people interact with computers). They also provide an examination of the three approaches used to … Continue reading

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Privacy in an Overexposed World

Through case studies and examples from Facebook and the physical world, Solove provides a useful summary of US privacy law and its shortcomings in the age of DMS and SNS. He particularly focuses on the notion of privacy in public, … Continue reading

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Online social networking as participatory surveillance

In this theoretically grounded paper, which draws on surveillance studies and computer ethics (specifically Andrejevic’s (2005) notion of lateral surveillance, see above), Albrechtslund argues that given their characteristics (sharing of activities, preferences and beliefs to socialize) SNS are anchored in … Continue reading

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The externalities of Search 2.0: The emerging privacy threats when the drive for the perfect search engine meets Web 2.0

Zimmer provides a critical examination of the overlooked implications for privacy and DMS resulting from from the integration of search technology with SNS and “Web 2.0” (now usually referred to as social media.) “Search 2.0,” as Zimmer calls it, results … Continue reading

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Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship

Through a comprehensive history and overview of the literature on SNS, boyd and Ellison provide a critical foundation for SNS research from a user perspective. Their review of the interdisciplinary scholarship covers current issues in SNS research, including privacy in … Continue reading

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