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Privacy Literacy and the Everyday Use of Social Technologies

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Information Literacy in Everyday Life (ECIL 2018)

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The increased privacy concerns and risks associated with the misuse of personal information collected, processed and re-purposed from various digital technologies calls for users’ understanding of their own informational privacy. While regulatory and technical mechanisms exist to protect individuals’ information privacy, these approaches have failed to be effective. This study presents the case for privacy literacy from an information literacy perspective as a complementary mechanism to the existing approaches to protecting individuals’ information privacy. The research used a constructivist paradigm, through interviewing twenty-one participants, and through online observation of SNS (social network services), and a privacy-settings walkthrough specifically on Facebook, and asking participants to track their online footprints and talk about any personal information found online.

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    Zablon Pingo & Bhuva Narayan

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  1. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Yurdagül Ünal

  4. University of Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  5. Department of Information and Communication Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Maija Leena Huotari

  6. Department of Information Studies , University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  7. Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  8. School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Pingo, Z., Narayan, B. (2019). Privacy Literacy and the Everyday Use of Social Technologies. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy in Everyday Life. ECIL 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 989. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13472-3_4

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