The Taste for Privacy: An Analysis of College Student Privacy Settings in an Online Social Network

By Kevin Lewis, Jason Kaufman, Nicholas A. Christakis. 2008

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Averaging Gone Wrong: Using Time-Aware Analyses to Better Understand Behavior (2016, background): “Keywords user behavior; cohorts; computational social science; Reddit; temporal”
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”
"I regretted the minute I pressed share": a qualitative study of regrets on Facebook (2011, background): “found that students are more likely to have private profiles if their friends and roommates have them [26].”
Social Commerce Success: Antecedents of Purchase Intention and the Mediating Role of Trust (2020, methodology): “The questionnaire was then placed online, and a link was sent by email to a database of alumni of a prominent Lebanese university. The data collection was done between February and March 2019. 350 questionnaires were sent of which a total of 206 were analyzed after eliminating respondents who did no”
Facebook and privacy: it's complicated (2012, background): “Despite significant changes in the demographics of Facebook users, most of the empirical research on Facebook users’ privacy concerns has been limited to undergraduates or teenagers [1, 4, 7, 14, 17, 21, 28, 30].”
Facebook and political engagement: A study of online political group membership and offline political engagement (2012, background): “9 For an extended discussion on Facebook and privacy, see Lewis et al., 2008.”
Digital Literacy and Privacy Behavior Online (2013, background): “However, Lewis, Kaufman and Christakis (2008) documented the behavioral patterns of publicly displaying personal profiles among college students.”
Friends only: examining a privacy-enhancing behavior in facebook (2010, methodology): “This analysis also confirms and expands previous research regarding the practice of setting a social network site profile to be friends-only [23,32].”
The 'Privacy Paradox' in the Social Web: The Impact of Privacy Concerns, Individual Characteristics, and the Perceived Social Relevance on Different Forms of Self-Disclosure1 (2014, background): “, 2004; Cong, 2007), level of activity (Lewis et al., 2008) and Internet experiences (Bellman et al.”
Social Networks, Personalized Advertising, and Privacy Controls (2013, neutral): “Such homophily or correlations across friends in tastes for privacy has been documented in field data from online social networks by (author?) [1, 23].”