Towards an integration of individualistic, networked, and institutional approaches to online disclosure and privacy in a networked ecology. (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bazarova, Natalya N; Masur, Philipp K
• Is Part Of: Current opinion in psychology. Volume 36(2020)
• Page Start: 118
• Page End: 123
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: Psychology -- Periodicals; 150.5
• DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.05.004
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2352-250X

Abstract

Highlights: Individualistic, networked, and institutional perspectives on disclosure and privacy. Each perspective circumscribes privacy at a particular level of information control. Networked ecologies intersect different levels of information control and access. Control and access are organized along horizontal and vertical dimensions of privacy. Abstract : In this paper, we review three different approaches to disclosure and privacy: a) an individualistic approach, which emphasizes an individual's control over information access and flow, b) a networked approach focused on information flow in horizontal relations between people, and c) an institutional approach concerned with public and societal privacy risks from platforms, providers, and governments. These approaches co-exist largely independently of each other in privacy and disclosure literature. However, with overlapping public and private spheres of communication where a presumption of individual agency over personal information is no longer tenable, we argue for the importance of bridging these perspectives towards a more multifaceted view on online disclosure and privacy in a networked ecology.