Understanding and explaining online personal information-sharing behaviours of New Zealanders
A new taxonomy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20508337 |
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| Authors | A Miriam B Lips, Elizabeth Eppel (0000-0001-5331-2911, Victoria University of Wellington), Elizabeth A Eppel |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 428-443 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Information Communication & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-118X • E-ISSN: 1468-4462 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369118x.2016.1184697 |
| OpenAlex | W2347019543 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Although research evidence shows that people have strong concerns about their privacy online, this does not necessarily mean that they do not share their personal information in varying online relationships. This paper presents New Zealand-based empirical research findings into people’s actual online information-sharing behaviours rather than their attitudes: the motivations, extent, and conditions under which individuals share their personal information in varying online relationships with commercial providers, with government, and on social networking sites. A grounded theory methodology and an abductive analysis were used to identify patterns in the findings and construct a new taxonomy of online information-sharing behaviours: contrary to existing taxonomies, all participants in this study are very privacy aware and make quite deliberate choices about what personal information they share online, with whom, to what extent, and under what circumstances. Four distinctive classifications of people’s online information-sharing behaviours were derived from this study: privacy pragmatists, privacy victims, privacy optimists, and privacy fatalists
Computer security · Empirical research · Information privacy · Information sharing · Internet privacy · Online participation · Personally identifiable information · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Media and Politics
The Digital Person
Abductive Analysis
Situating Privacy Online
The interplay of public and private spaces in internet access
Putting the ‘theory’ back into grounded theory
The Privacy Paradox
Privacy in Context
Privacy, Trust, and Self-Disclosure Online
The Public Politics of Opinion Research on Surveillance and Privacy
Toward a Typology of Internet Users and Online Privacy Concerns
Information-sharing dilemmas in public services
The panoptic state
The Right to Privacy
| Highly cited | No |
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