Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook

By Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross. 2006

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Subfields: Communication, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “Besides self-presentation, privacy concerns may also aﬀect what users do or share online (Acquisti and Gross, 2006).”
"I regretted the minute I pressed share": a qualitative study of regrets on Facebook (2011, background): “In a follow-up 2006 study, Gross and Acquisti found that even users who claimed to be concerned about privacy tended to reveal a great deal of their personal information — a discrepancy between stated privacy attitude and actual behavior [5].”
Make new friends or keep the old: Gender and personality differences in social networking use (2012, background): “Previous research demonstrates that both of these factors technical expertise (or CMC competency as defined by Ross et al. (2009)), and privacy concerns (Acquisti & Gross, 2007) influence how much and what kinds of information people disclose on social networking sites.”
Privacy wizards for social networking sites (2010, methodology): “As an instance of this general framework, we have built a wizard based on an active learning paradigm called uncertainty sampling.”
A Review of Facebook Research in the Social Sciences (2012, positive): “For instance, 16% of respondents who reported being “very worried” about the possibility that a stranger knew where they lived and the location of their classes still revealed both pieces of information on their Facebook profile (Acquisti & Gross, 2006).”
Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship (2007, neutral): “Acquisti and Gross (2006) argue that there is often a disconnect between students’ desire to protect privacy and their behaviors, a theme that is also explored in Stutzman’s (2006) survey of Facebook users and Barnes’s (2006) description of the ‘‘privacy paradox’’ that occurs when teens are not awar”
How to Transform Consumers into Fans of Your Brand (2012, result): “This motivation for social networking usage is supported by several other studies (Dholakia et al., 2004; Bolar, 2009; Acquisti and Gross, 2006).”
Over-exposed?: privacy patterns and considerations in online and mobile photo sharing (2007, background): “Consequently, many of the privacy and identity issues that arise in social network sites such as Facebook [2,24] and MySpace [4,24], exist in ZoneTag and Flickr as well.”
Internet social network communities: Risk taking, trust, and privacy concerns (2009, background): “Among the 16% of the participants who expressed the highest privacy concerns for a stranger knowing their schedule and where they lived, even so 22% provided at least their home address and 40% provided their schedule of classes (Acquisti & Gross, 2006).”
Fear of Crime Online? Examining the Effect of Risk, Previous Victimization, and Exposure on Fear of Online Interpersonal Victimization (2013, background): “For example, many social network users often extensively post personal information that could be used to stalk, harass, or commit identity theft (Acquisti & Gross, 2006; Wilson, Gosling, & Graham, 2012).”
Exploring the Security of Information Sharing on Social Networking Sites: The Role of Perceived Control of Information (2014, background): “…between perceived control and privacy risk, this study takes a ﬁrst step to examine the inﬂuence of perceived control of information on users’ behaviors on SNS. Security and privacy have been primary topics of many SNS studies (e.g., Acquisti and Gross 2006; Dwyer et al. 2007; Hoadley et al. 2010).”