Information revelation and privacy in online social networks
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society
Internet social network communities: Risk taking, trust, and privacy concerns
Computers in Human Behavior
studiVZ: social networking in the surveillance society
Ethics and Information Technology
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The overall purpose of this contribution is to explore the meaning and significance of the terms control and privacy in the light of the intensive diffusion of user generated content (UGC). Every day a large number of people all over the world use digital media to share personal details with a vast network of friends and, often, with an unspecified number of strangers producing long lasting digital information. My exploratory analysis is based on 145 compositions written by students from Udine University (aged between 19 and 27). The data from the texts were content-analysed and were then categorized and analysed from a qualitative point of view to understand how young people frame the topic of privacy on the Web. The results show that it is possible to identify ten macrocategories: Privacy, Participation and Sharing, Visibility, Persistence, Replicability and Searchability, Exhibitionism, Risks, Horizontal Control, Invisible Audiences, Vertical Control, Protection, Distrust.