Privacy Online: Perspectives on Privacy and Self-Disclosure in the Social Web

Sabine Trepte & Leonard Reinecke (Eds.)

"Privacy Online" not only offers researchers and students a detailed overview of current issues in the field of online privacy and the social web. It also allows a look into the future: How will new technologies influence privacy? What questions will arise as a result? This book provides theoretical research concepts that can also be used to research new forms of the social web.

Information posted online is often accessible by a large group of people. Our data on the Internet can be searched, analyzed, and redistributed by advertising companies, service providers, or even stalkers. Many Internet users know what could happen to their information - and still behave as if it is protected and private. They expect their privacy to be respected while they willingly share their private lives with the world through social networks, blogs, and communities.

Sabine Trepte and Leonard Reinecke address this contradiction and the associated questions in their book "Privacy Online. The contributions come from leading researchers and various disciplines, including psychology, information and communication sciences, and sociology. With new concepts and theoretical models, the articles collected in the book help to better understand the phenomenon of online privacy and the individual's relationship to the Internet public sphere.

The authors offer innovative solutions to some of the most urgent questions and problems in the field. They examine how users give up their privacy in order to gain social capital and other gratifications. Trust and authenticity seem to replace the anonymity of the Internet in social networks. Ethical aspects are also addressed in this context. The contributions deal with different user groups (e.g., young adults and older users) as well as with a wide variety of online services - from social networks to mobile internet and online journalism to blogs and micro-blogs.

"Privacy Online" not only provides researchers and students with a detailed overview of current issues in the field of online privacy and the social web. It also allows a look into the future: How will new technologies influence privacy? What questions will arise from this? This book provides theoretical research concepts that can also be used to investigate new forms of the Social Web.

Publisher: Springer; Auflage: 1 (2011) 
ISBN: 978-3642215209
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