Transcript Computer-Mediated Communication

Computer-Mediated
Communication
Privacy and Information Control
Part II
Coye Cheshire
// April 10, 2016
Incorrect Information Inferences:
Implications and Considerations
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Fallacy of “Policing Your Own Digital
Information”
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“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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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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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.
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Potential Responses?
Digital Abstinence
Cognitive Adjustment
Information Privacy Rights
Perfect Contextualization
Information Ecology
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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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Managing
Privacy Settings
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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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So…Who Cares?
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The Internet is Good!
BAD!?
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Web Discretion:
Proactively avoid harm online; judiciously read information online
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Web Information Control:
One’s perception that she has control over her personal information on the Internet
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