1. Computer-Mediated Communication
Privacy and Information Control
Part II

2. Incorrect Information Inferences: Implications and Considerations
Like Brown/Duguid’s “foibles”
Funny at first– but consequences not always so.
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3. Fallacy of “Policing Your Own Digital Information”
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4. Computer-Mediated Communication
“Perhaps things are more efficient in the digital age, maybe it is just a lot easier because information is so widespread, but this is nothing *fundamentally* new about digital technologies…Maybe we got into a frame of mind in which we thought these digital spaces were free spaces for us to express our liberated identities and need a push in the other direction, but the time for that argument has come and gone.
-Stuart G.
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5. Computer-Mediated Communication
While it is true that information is now more readily accessible due to digitalization, I disagree with the claim that there is "global reach" with information. While it is true that making information globally reachable is ridiculously easy (posting my SSN to a publically-readable blog), I believe this falls under the category of not properly "judging what is obvious to us".
-Adam J.
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6. Computer-Mediated Communication
I believe that the change in behavior will be temporary, as users pull back during the transition, but eventually give in and lead lives with a different perception of privacy.
-Jackson H.
MS contends that this will result in a downward spiral in which the powerless will find themselves further disempowered as they lack control over the information upon which to shape their identities. Fair enough, but this sounds like what has been said many times before about the experience of modernity of the disenfranchised, minority populations, and non-western nations.
-David H.
Lots of comments on power. Seems many of you are not convinced that ubiquitous information search and retrieval will affect behavior. (Why does anyone care about Facebook, Google, if they didn’t think it would affect behavior)? Why would companies incentivize new ways to share information if it had nothing to do with behavior (ie., sharing)?
Same old same old? Is it a fair statement to say that its not that different than books/diaries, just because the information is kept whether we choose to or not?
…Or that there are two parts to every communication?
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7. Computer-Mediated Communication
Potential Responses?
Digital Abstinence
Cognitive Adjustment
Information Privacy Rights
Perfect Contextualization
I felt that many of you missed the point of this– I never read M-S as saying what the solution “should” be, but instead explaining what the typical responses seem to be (many of you fall into the digital abstinence category—”it’s the user’s fault”)
Information Ecology
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8. Computer-Mediated Communication
Facebook… who cares?
Survey of first-year UIC students
Conducted on paper to avoid bias towards web users with higher privacy concerns
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9. Managing Privacy Settings
Table 5c: Note differences with changing settings by the extremes of activities
Other two tables: Difference in confidence about changing settings based on skill
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10. Confidence with other online activities
Highlights gender differences
What is the story here?
But, means track in same range for types of activities
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11. Computer-Mediated Communication
So…Who Cares?
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12. Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore
The Internet is
BAD!?
Good!
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13. Computer-Mediated Communication
Web Discretion: Proactively avoid harm online; judiciously read information online
Higher trust and higher caution associated with higher web discretion.
Adverse events…no effect?! Why not??
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14. Computer-Mediated Communication
Web Information Control: One’s perception that she has control over her personal information on the Internet
Higher trust and caution negatively associated with information control.
Adverse events! Borderline significant, but negative effect on one’s perception of control
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