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oapen-20.500.12657-771942023-11-15T09:17:26Z Chapter 30 The Role of Participants in Online Privacy Research Breuer, Johannes Weller, Katrin Kinder-Kurlanda, Katharina AI, ICT, algorithm, artificial intelligence, communication studies, data, digital communication, digital media, information law, media and society, network, online, policy, protection, psychology, regulation, rights, security, technology bic Book Industry Communication::U Computing & information technology::UD Digital lifestyle::UDB Internet guides & online services::UDBS Social networking bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTC Communication studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies Online privacy research considers the determinants, dimensions, and consequences of information disclosure on the internet. In this endeavor, researchers often are interested in uncovering personal and potentially sensitive details about media use and (privacy-related) attitudes and behavior. This focus raises a number of ethical questions that researchers need to address. Ethical questions relate to issues of data protection, but also to other topics, such as the role of study participants. Digital trace data have become increasingly popular in the social and behavioral sciences in recent years and constitute a promising resource for online privacy research. While digital trace data come with their own set of challenges that may increase specific ethical concerns, they also hold the potential for innovation in research design, for the involvement of study participants, and for more research transparency. In this chapter, we discuss ethical challenges in online privacy research, with a particular focus on the role of participants, and illustrate how digital trace data – and their combination with other types of data – can be used to find and develop novel approaches for online privacy research that also consider key ethical questions. 2023-11-02T14:04:03Z 2023-11-02T14:04:03Z 2023 chapter 9781032111612 9781032155555 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77194 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003244677_10.4324_9781003244677-35.pdf Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Privacy and Social Media Routledge 10.4324/9781003244677-35 10.4324/9781003244677-35 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 86c4583a-ba20-40b3-accd-d6c8c26051ca 9781032111612 9781032155555 Routledge 11 open access
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Online privacy research considers the determinants, dimensions, and consequences of information disclosure on the internet. In this endeavor, researchers often are interested in uncovering personal and potentially sensitive details about media use and (privacy-related) attitudes and behavior. This focus raises a number of ethical questions that researchers need to address. Ethical questions relate to issues of data protection, but also to other topics, such as the role of study participants. Digital trace data have become increasingly popular in the social and behavioral sciences in recent years and constitute a promising resource for online privacy research. While digital trace data come with their own set of challenges that may increase specific ethical concerns, they also hold the potential for innovation in research design, for the involvement of study participants, and for more research transparency. In this chapter, we discuss ethical challenges in online privacy research, with a particular focus on the role of participants, and illustrate how digital trace data – and their combination with other types of data – can be used to find and develop novel approaches for online privacy research that also consider key ethical questions.
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