Our special issue “Comparative Approaches To Studying Privacy” is now published in Social Media + Society!
Link to the full issue: https://tinyurl.com/comparativeprivacy
This special issue is a result of extensive community-building facilitated by the Comparative Privacy Research Network (CPRN)
Edited by Kelly Quinn, Christoph Lutz, Lemi Baruh, Carsten Wilhelm, Dima Epstein, and Philipp Masur, this special issue features 10 original research articles plus our editorial introduction. The issue addresses the pressing need for comparative research on privacy, challenging decontextualized and mono-cultural understandings.
“Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy: Introduction to the Special Issue” Christoph Lutz, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, Dmitry Epstein, Philipp K. Masur, and Carsten Wilhelm introduce the special issue and the Comparative Privacy Research Framework (CPRF) as a conceptual foundation for context-sensitive privacy research.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20563051251344460
“Attitudes on Data Use for Public Benefit: Investigating Context-Specific Differences Across Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom with a Longitudinal Survey Experiment” Frederic Gerdon compares attitudes on the use of data for public benefit, revealing how contextual factors like data type and recipient influence perceptions of appropriateness across three countries: Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20563051241301202
“It’s Fine If Others Do It Too: Privacy Concerns, Social Influence, and Political Expression on Facebook in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States” Christian Pieter Hoffmann and Shelley Boulianne investigate the relationship between privacy concerns, social influence, and online political expression on Facebook across five Western democracies that differ from each other in terms of cultural and legislative characteristics.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20563051241290334
“Online Privacy, Young People, and Datafication: Different Perceptions About Online Privacy Across Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, Ghana, and Slovenia” Rys Farthing, Katja Koren Ošljak, Teki Akuetteh, Kadian Camacho, Genevieve Smith-Nunes, and Jun Zhao use mixed methods to explore how young people’s awareness of datafication and their socio-political contexts shape their understandings of online privacy in countries from global north and global south.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20563051241298042
“Understanding the Motivations of Young Adults to Engage in Privacy Protection Behavior While Setting Up Smartphone Apps: A Cross-Country Comparison Between Romania and Germany” Delia Cristina Balaban, Maria Mustăţea, and Valeriu Frunzaru explore the motivations behind young adults’ privacy protection behaviors when configuring smartphone apps in Germany and Romania, two countries that differ in terms of factors such as legislative environment, institutional trust, culture.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20563051241298446
“Conversation-Related Advertising and Electronic Eavesdropping: Mapping Perceptions of Phones Listening for Advertising in the United States, the Netherlands, and Poland” Claire M. Segijn, Joanna Strycharz, Anna Turner, and Suzanna J. Opree examine the belief that mobile devices eavesdrop on offline conversations for advertising purposes across the U.S., the Netherlands, and Poland, three countries with different regulatory contexts and surveillance histories.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20563051241288448
“Turn It on! Turn It on? Privacy Management of Pupils and Teachers in Online Learning During COVID-19 Lockdowns in Germany and Israel” Leyla Dogruel, Dmitri Epstein, Sven Joeckel, and Nicholas John study how students and teachers in Germany and Israel negotiated privacy and visibility during the shift to emergency remote teaching in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, finding striking despite different cultural and legal contexts.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20563051241301841
“AI Privacy in Context: A Comparative Study of Public and Institutional Discourse on Conversational AI Privacy in the US and Chinese Social Media” Renwen Zhang, Han Li, Anfan Chen, Zihan Liu, and Yi-Chieh Lee compare public and institutional discourses on AI privacy on Twitter (US) and Weibo (China), revealing divergent patterns shaped by cultural, political, and economic factors.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20563051241290845
“‘(Virtuous) Wives Don’t Have Anything to Hide’: Understanding Digital Privacy Perceptions and Behavior of Married Women in Rural India” Debjani Chakraborty and Chhavi Garg examine how married women in rural India navigate digital privacy, balancing cultural norms of being “hidden” online while having “nothing to hide” from family.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20563051251313665
“(Lack of) Patterns in Commitment: Data Protection in the Latin America and Caribbean Personal Data Protection Laws” Elías Chavarría-Mora analyzes and maps the data protection laws across 25 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, discovering large variability that does not follow clear geographic patterns while also identifying key areas of convergence attributed to a Brussels effect.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20563051251337206
“A Triple-Layered Comparative Approach to Understanding New Privacy Policy Practices of Digital Platforms and Users in China After Implementation of the PIPL” Liming Liu and Yiming Chen analyze how three platforms, WeChat, Taobao, and Douyin, implement privacy policies after China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), revealing how state-dominant discourses legitimize authority over user data.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20563051241301265
We wholeheartedly thank all the contributors to this special issue.
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