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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Trepte, Sabine (Editor), Reinecke, Leonard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Industrial management.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computers and civilization.; Communication.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Computer Science.; Computers and Society.; Communication Studies.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Media Management.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Communications and personal information that are posted online are usually accessible to a vast number of people. Yet when personal data exist online, they may be searched, reproduced and mined by advertisers, merchants, service providers or even stalkers. Many users know what may happen to their in...