Information revelation and privacy in online social networks

By Ralph Gross, Alessandro Acquisti. 2005

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science

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Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “Privacy breaches can have harmful outcomes (Barocas and Selbst, 2016) like stalking, discrimination, black-mailing or identity theft (Gross and Acquisti, 2005).”
An Alternative View of Privacy on Facebook (2011, background): “The typical standard study of privacy on Facebook and other social networking sites focuses on the analysis of information disclosures by users (in many cases younger users) (for example: Acquisti and Gross 2006 [37]; Barnes 2006 [38]; Dwyer 2007 [39]; Dwyer, Hiltz and Passerini 2007 [40]; Fogel and”
Safebook: A privacy-preserving online social network leveraging on real-life trust (2009, methodology): “In accordance to previous studies [5], [6], we assume the protection of the user’s privacy to be the main objective for SNS.”
Student-Teacher Interaction on Facebook: What Students Find Appropriate (2011, background): “Gross and Acquisti (2005) reported that only 1.5% of the faculty population at one university used Facebook.”
Facebook and Online Privacy: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Unintended Consequences (2009, background): “In network theory, this phenomenon is discussed as ‘‘weak ties in the flow of information’’ (Gross & Acquisti, 2005, p. 2f), but this does not capture the sociopsychological function of the ritual, which became apparent in the interviews—to keep people at a ritualized distance.”
First Comes Love, Then Comes Google: An Investigation of Uncertainty Reduction Strategies and Self-Disclosure in Online Dating (2011, background): “First, disclosing personal information online can pose risks to one’s physical and emotional safety because it can result in threats such as identity theft or stalking (Gross & Acquisti, 2005; Spitzberg & Hoobler, 2002).”
Intentions to use social media in organizing and taking vacation trips (2011, background): “Authors like Govani and Pashley (2005) and Gross and Acquisti (2005) have addressed the case of Facebook by evaluating the importance that the potential participants in that social network attach to the loss of privacy, both normative and informational.”
What's Different about Social Media Networks? A Framework and Research Agenda (2014, background): “Privacy has become a more significant issue as the use and adoption of social media has grown (Gross and Acquisti 2005; McCreary 2008).”