A dimensão informacional na regulação do contexto de privacidade em interações sociais mediadas por dispositivos móveis celulares

Abstract

In this paper, we seek to understand how users of cellular mobile devices perceive the privacy context in everyday situations and, from this perception, if and how they adjust their respective performances in mediated social interactions. To do so, we retrieve concepts about privacy, including psychosocial aspects of this phenomeno n, and use the Privacy Process Model (PPM), an analytical model that allows the analysis of interactional behaviors through the regulation of privacy in four different dimensions: informational, social, psychological and physical. In our analysis, we used reports from university students from the Brazilian Northeast region, users of cellular mobile devices, aiming to identify which strategies are usually used to regulate the privacy context, considering, in this case, the informational dimension -that is the dimension that covers the selection and appropriation of resources and applications present in these devices for the accomplishment of informational exchanges. This is an Open Access paper published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license (CC-BY-NC), which permits its use, distribution and reproduction in any media, with no restrictions, provided there are no commercial purposes and the original work is correctly cited.