#MyPrivacy: How users think about social media privacy

Kelly Quinn; Dmitry Epstein

doi:10.1145/3217804.3217945

#MyPrivacy: How users think about social media privacy

Kelly Quinn, Dmitry Epstein

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Abstract

This study explores privacy from the perspective of the user, leveraging a “framing in thought” approach to capture how users make sense of privacy in their social media use. Definitions of privacy collected from 608 social media users are analyzed through topic modelling and the clustering of word pairs to surface themes present in the data. Results indicate the dominance of frames related to horizontal privacy, or privacy vis-à-vis peers, over vertical privacy (i.e., that from institutions and governments). Themes relating to economic and legal frameworks had a reduced level of prominence. These findings suggest that user conceptualization of privacy reflects a cognate-based approach that emphasizes control and limits to information access.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2018
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	360-364
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9781450363341
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217945
State	Published - 18 Jul 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2018 - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 18 Jul 2018 → 20 Jul 2018

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2018
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	18/07/18 → 20/07/18

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Keywords

Framing
Privacy
Social media
User definitions

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Quinn, K & Epstein, D 2018, #MyPrivacy: How users think about social media privacy. in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2018. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 360-364, 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18/07/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217945

#MyPrivacy: How users think about social media privacy. / Quinn, Kelly; Epstein, Dmitry.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2018. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 360-364 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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