Doing data differently? Developing personal data tactics and strategies amongst young mobile media users

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ID5260950
AutoresNeil Selwyn (0000-0001-9489-2692, Monash University, autor correspondente), Luci Pangrazio (0000-0002-7346-1313, Deakin University)
Ano2018
Volume5
Fascículo1
Páginas205395171876502
Data de publicação2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBig Data & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2053-9517 • E-ISSN: 2053-9517
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2053951718765021
OpenAlexW2793630173
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas30
Referências citadas19

Large amounts of personal data are generated through young people's engagements with mobile media, with these data increasingly (re)used by advertisers, content developers and other third parties to profile, predict and position individuals. This has prompted growing concerns over the ability of mobile media users to develop informed stances towards how and why their data is being used, i.e. to build 'conscious' and/or 'resistant' forms of 'data agency'. This paper explores ways of developing the critical consciousness and resistant practices of young mobile media users towards personal data. Drawing on research with 27 young people (aged 13-17 years), the paper describes efforts to make representations of third party use of personal data openly available as a basis from which to develop data-savvy tactics and strategies. The results of these interventions - while only partially successful - offer valuable insights into the technical, social and cultural issues that shape young people's engagement with personal data. The paper concludes by considering how concerns over data agency might be better aligned with the realities of young people's mobile media use

Consciousness · Internet privacy · Mobile device · Political science · Public relations · Sense of agency · Social media · Social science · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology