Bedrooms and beyond: Youth, identity and privacy on social network sites

Hodkinson, Paul

doi:10.1177/1461444815605454

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“…To date, beliefs that young people risk becoming victims of privacy-related crimes and simultaneously threaten eroding the very notion of privacy itself due to their reckless behavior are still visible in contemporary public discourses on youth and online privacy [4].These assumptions produce a "protectionist approach" in which adults privilege themselves with imposing restrictions in order to 'protect' youths against media technologies and themselves, effectively further excluding youth from public life [1,2,41].Over the past few years, however, scholarship has countered the portrayal of young people as passive, naive, irresponsible, or irrational human beings [e.g., 3,6,24,26,27,47,48]. Rather, the dystopian technopanic narratives are a one-sided representation of a more nuanced and complex reality.…”

Section: Technopanicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reframing Current Debates on Young People's Online Privacy by Taking into Account the Cultural Construction of Youth

Leyn

Wolf

Abeele

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society

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In public discussions regarding online privacy, young people are oftentimes portrayed as individuals who put themselves and others at risk with their naive and reckless online behavior. Recent scholarly work, however, debunked the myth that teenagers do not value privacy anymore by uncovering how they manage sensitive information in their everyday life. In this paper we argue that underlying assumptions of this scholarship still hinder our understanding of youth's engagements with social media and privacy. First, researchers tend to reproduce an image of young people as 'unfinished'. Second, studies fail to account for young people's exposure to technopanic narratives. Finally, the scholarship is oftentimes grounded in a liberal idealization of privacy as something inherently desirable for young people. To critically reflect upon these assumptions, we suggest taking into account the cultural construction of youth. Specifically, we argue that youths' experiences as "beings-inthe-present", society's anxieties about a digital future, and power dynamics might be essential elements that mediate young people's engagements with social media, privacy, and society. CCS CONCEPTS • Security and Privacy → Social aspects of security and privacy KEYWORDS Culture, privacy, social media, technopanic, youth

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Section: Technopanicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although these studies illustrate that youths voice concerns and protect their privacy, some scholars suggest that young people pay more attention to "social privacy" than "institutional privacy" [1,3,6,25,29,47,53,54].…”

Section: Online Privacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Reframing Current Debates on Young People's Online Privacy by Taking into Account the Cultural Construction of Youth

Leyn

Wolf

Abeele

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society

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“…This has a run-on effect to individuals' digital practices, as users must now manage against potential context collapses where different social contexts (such as paid work and personal spaces) are unintentionally merged with negative results (Boyd, 2008;Davis & Jurgenson, 2014;Vitak, 2012). Young people are viewed as being particularly at risk of this collapse, although this risk is often unfounded (boyd, 2014;Hodkinson, 2015;Marwick, 2012;Marwick & Ellison, 2012).…”

Section: Data Circulationmentioning

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The myth of the “data‐driven” society: Exploring the interactions of data interfaces, circulations, and abstractions

Lee

Cook

2019

Sociology Compass

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The prominence of data and data technologies in society, such as algorithms, social media, mobile technology, and artificial intelligence, have heralded numerous claims of the revolutionary potential of these systems. From public policy, to business management, to scientific research, a “data‐driven” society is apparently imminent—or currently happening—where “objective” and asocial data systems are believed to be comprehensively improving human life. Through a review of existing sociological literature, in this article, we critically examine the relationship between data and society and propose a new model for understanding these dynamics. “Using the concept of the informatic,” we argue the relationship between data and society can be understood as representing the interaction of several different social trends around data; that of data interfaces (that connect individuals to digital contexts), data circulation (trends in the movement and storage of data), and data abstraction (data manipulation practices). Data and data technologies are founded to be entwined and embedded in numerous social relationships, and while not all are fair and equitable relationships, there is ample evidence of the deeply social nature of data across many streams of social life. Our three‐part informatic framework allows these complex relationships to be understood in the social dynamic through which they are witnessed and experienced.

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“…Moreover, as the use of social media is gendered (Blakley 2012;Clifford 2014;Duggan and Brenner 2013;Harris 2008;Miller 2016;Schuster 2013), concern is often expressed in popular and academic discourse about the consequences of young women's digital practices (Sanghani 2014;Sales 2016). There is a strong desire to determine whether these practices are inherently oppressive or empowering to women (Bates 2016;Hodkinson 2017;Mesch 2009). …”

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confidence: 99%

The Personal is Political: Assessing Feminist Fundamentals in the Digital Age

Rogan

Budgeon

2018

Social Sciences

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Abstract:The 'personal is political' has long been recognised as the definitive slogan of second-wave feminism but can it still inform our understanding of the contemporary practice of feminism? Questioning the importance of this claim now invites us to critically reflect upon the trajectory Western feminism has followed in light of the efforts made by the Women's Liberation movement to politicise formerly unquestioned aspects of social relations. In this paper, the significance of this feminist slogan will be assessed by locating it within two broadly defined historical periods. Firstly we identify the critical work performed by the ideas expressed in the slogan in the early years of the 1970s and then assess their continued relevance within the context of the early 21st century. Drawing upon the empirical analysis of young women's experience of and relationship to feminism via their engagement with social media in Britain, this research critically assesses digital spaces as places where young women explore their personal experiences. We aim to understand how this may constitute a contemporary form of feminist practice consistent with the claim that 'the personal is political'.

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Bedrooms and beyond: Youth, identity and privacy on social network sites

Cited by 57 publications

References 32 publications

Reframing Current Debates on Young People's Online Privacy by Taking into Account the Cultural Construction of Youth

Reframing Current Debates on Young People's Online Privacy by Taking into Account the Cultural Construction of Youth

The myth of the “data‐driven” society: Exploring the interactions of data interfaces, circulations, and abstractions

The Personal is Political: Assessing Feminist Fundamentals in the Digital Age

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