Tag: Privacy

  • Conference Announcement: Vectors of Data Disclosure

    Conference Announcement: Vectors of Data Disclosure

    Now that #ica22 is over, it is time to announce the upcoming “Vectors of Data Disclosure” (June 27-June 28, 2022) conference organized by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. — How do different cultural frameworks and legal regulations influence whether or not we decide to disclose our personal data? What factors interact with each…

  • Call for Papers: ICA-Preconference on Comparative Privacy and the Literacies of a Networked Age

    Call for Papers: ICA-Preconference on Comparative Privacy and the Literacies of a Networked Age

    For those of you who would like to spend a couple of nice spring days in the lovely city of Mulhouse in eastern France while digging deep into questions related to how thinking about privacy from a comparative lens can enhance our understanding of privacy and related competencies, here is a nice opportunity for doing…

  • AoIR Satellite Event on Comparing Fuzzy Things

    AoIR Satellite Event on Comparing Fuzzy Things

    The Comparative Privacy Research Network is organizing a workshop on issues related to comparing fuzzy concepts like love, trust, and privacy. Below is the description of the workshop from the CPRN website: “Internet researchers often engage in the study of complex, multidimensional, and culturally sensitive ideas. Deploying such concepts in comparative research settings is critically…

  • Do online privacy concerns predict privacy behavior?

    Do online privacy concerns predict privacy behavior?

    In a new article, we (Lemi Baruh, Ekin Seçinti, Zeynep Cemalcılar) meta-analytically chime in on the frequently debated concept of “privacy paradox”.  We  investigate whether users’ reported privacy concerns and literacy influence the extent to which they utilize online services (including but not limited to SNSs), disclose personal information and adopt measures to protect their privacy. Privacy…

  • Cyberpsychology’s special issue on self-disclosure and privacy published

    Cyberpsychology’s special issue on self-disclosure and privacy published

    Privacy and disclosure special issue of Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace edited by Michel Walrave, Sonja Utz, Alexander P. Schouten, Wannes Heirman is now out and available for download (and hopefully for wide reading, discussing, citing). Also included in the special issue is an article from SIMLAB (Murat Kezer, Barış Sevi, Zeynep Cemalcılar, and Lemi Baruh). The…

  • Why “notice and choice” approaches to privacy reduce our privacy

    Why “notice and choice” approaches to privacy reduce our privacy

    In a recently published article, we (Lemi Baruh and Mihaela Popescu) discuss the limitations of reliance on market mechanisms for privacy protection. Self-management frameworks such as “notice or choice” are inherently biased towards 1) reducing the level of privacy enjoyed by the members of the society and 2) creating privacy inequities (i.e., privacy haves and have…

  • Introducing a “multidimensional privacy attitudes scale”

    Introducing a “multidimensional privacy attitudes scale”

    As one of our first research project in SIMLAB (founded in late 2012), we (Lemi Baruh & Zeynep Cemalcılar) had been working on developing a multidimensional privacy orientation scale. The scale is summarised in an article published in November 2014 in Personality and Individual Differences. The article reports that individuals’ decisions about level of privacy they need…

  • COSMIC Report on Citizens’ Involvement in Crises

    COSMIC (Contribution of Social Media in Crisis Management) project partners MixLab at Koç University and Hellenic Rescue Team has drafted a report on Citizens’ Involvement in Emergency Communications. The report seeks to examine the various roles that citizens may have in communications during emergencies. Also, the report maps the relationship between the use of different types…

  • A new book on Social Interaction Technologies, coming out soon

    Here we are again with an announcement of a new book… This new book, perhaps the first of its kind, is  edited by Tatyana Dumova and Richard Fiorno and is entitled Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends. The book is expected to be out in July, 2009 from…

  • Societies Under Siege Conference – Presentation

    About two weeks ago, an international conference entitled Societies Under Siege: Media, Government, Politics and Citizens’ Freedoms in an Age of Terrorism was organized by the Faculty of Communications at Kadir Has University (organization committee chair was Dr. Banu Baybars Hawks). I also had a chance to present a paper and  revisit some of my…

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