Toward a Typology of Internet Users and Online Privacy Concerns

By Kim Bartel Sheehan. The Information Society, 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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Location disclosure to social relations: why, when, & what people want to share (2005, result): “The breakdown of participants’ privacy classifications are shown in Table 1. The trends we saw in participants are slightly different than those reported by P&AB/Harris Interactive but similar to those found by Sheehan [ 22 ], with pragmatists being the largest group in our study, followed by unconc”
Personality traits and concern for privacy: an empirical study in the context of location-based services (2008, background): “In fact, it is believed that privacy is not an inert concept that exists in a vacuum, but instead is strongly influenced by environmental forces (Kelvin, 1973; Laufer & Wolfe, 1977; Levin & Askin, 1977; Sheehan, 2002).”
Engineering Privacy (2009, background): “One group of people continuously identified in privacy studies is referred to as “unconcerned” or “marginally concerned” [31], [52], [49], [47].”
Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube (2007, background): “Similarly, ‘‘individuals have privacy to the extent that others have limited access to information about them, to the intimacies of their lives, to their thoughts or bodies’’ (Sheehan, 2002, p. 22).”
An Experimental Study on Ubiquitous commerce Adoption: Impact of Personalization and Privacy Concerns (2008, background): “People over the age of 45 tend to be either not at all concerned about privacy or highly concerned about privacy (Sheehan, 2002).”
Older and Wiser? Facebook Use, Privacy Concern, and Privacy Protection in the Life Stages of Emerging, Young, and Middle Adulthood (2015, methodology): “Literature suggests that middle adulthood SNS users have less control over their online privacy due to a lack of understanding of the privacy settings (Brandtzæg, Lüders, & Skjetne, 2010).”
Research Note - Effects of Individual Self-Protection, Industry Self-Regulation, and Government Regulation on Privacy Concerns: A Study of Location-Based Services (2012, background): “The Concept of Privacy and the Construct of Privacy Concerns Although various conceptions of privacy have been given in the literature, “the notion of privacy is fraught with multiple meanings, interpretations, and value judgments” (Waldo et al. 2007, p. x). The rich body of conceptual work has welc”
Information Privacy Research: An Interdisciplinary Review (2011, background): “Individuals are continually engaging in an adjustment process in which desires for privacy are weighed against desires for disclosure and personal communication with others (Kimmel 1996; Sheehan 2002).”