Tag: Updates
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New Special Issue: Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy
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…
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Privacy Cynicism among Data Professionals
Recent forecasts indicate that the global market for “big data” analytics in the education sector will exceed $50 billion by 2030, with higher education accounting for approximately half of the revenue generated from software and services for data analytics. Higher education institutions, now essential producers and consumers of big data, are undergoing a transformative re-envisioning…
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Study on the Viability of Three Opposition Candidates during the 2023 Turkish Presidential Elections
In the pivotal year of 2023, Turkey stood at a crossroads, entering a significant electoral event encompassing both parliament and the presidency. This posed a formidable challenge to the established 21-year rule of the AKP, led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Within the opposition, there was optimism, fueled by underlying issues that had eroded the AKP’s…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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