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This study examines the impact of role-based constraints on privacy cynicism within higher education, a workplace increasingly subjected to surveillance.
Mihaela Popescu +2 more
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Privacy resignation, apathy, and cynicism: Introduction to a special theme [PDF]
The growing trend of collecting data about individuals to track past actions and infer future attitudes and behaviors has fueled popular and scholarly interest in the erosion of privacy.
Nora A Draper +4 more
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Privacy cynicism: A new approach to the privacy paradox [PDF]
Privacy concerns among Internet users are consistently found to be high. At the same time, these concerns do not appear to generate a corresponding wave of privacy protection behavior.
Christian Pieter Hoffmann +2 more
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Data capitalism and the user: An exploration of privacy cynicism in Germany [PDF]
Ever since empirical studies found only a weak, if any, relationship between privacy concerns and privacy behavior, scholars have struggled to explain the so-called privacy paradox. Today, a number of theoretical arguments illuminate users’ privacy rationales, including the privacy calculus, privacy literacy, and contextual differentiations.
Christian P. Hoffmann +2 more
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Privacy risk perception and privacy disclosure behavior among college students: the mediating role of online social anxiety and the moderating role of privacy cynicism [PDF]
BackgroundSocial media is a key platform for college students’ daily communication. However, frequent online fraud incidents have raised widespread concern. Interestingly, many users’ high-risk perception does not prevent them from continuing to disclose
Shuyan Huang +10 more
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Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints
A growing body of research highlights a trend toward widespread attitudes of privacy cynicism, apathy and resignation among Internet users. In this work, we extend these discussions by concentrating on the concept of user agency. Specifically, we examine
Christian Pieter Hoffmann +2 more
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This article examines the public response to mandatory location disclosure (MLD), a new surveillance technology implemented on China's Sina Weibo . Initially introduced to geo-tag posts related to the Ukraine War, the MLD eventually expanded to encompass
Yuner Zhu
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Warmth and competence in affective companion virtual humans: differential effects on behavioral intention via hedonic benefits [PDF]
Generation Z increasingly engages with affective companion virtual humans not as tools but as partners. However, it remains unclear how social perceptions—specifically warmth and competence—privacy-related attitudes jointly influence their behavioral ...
Ting Zhang
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In an effort to sell, advertisers track our needs, preferences, and online behaviors. The continuous collection of big volumes of data results in the so-called dataveillance. Guided by the transparency-awareness-control framework and privacy management theory, the current study aims to provide insights into consumers’ thought processes as they ...
Joanna Strycharz, Claire Segijn
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Prior research on digital inequality has highlighted the role of sociocultural resources in shaping Internet beneficial use patterns by positively impacting on online literacy. Research on privacy protection online has—at the same time—shown the emergence of a “privacy cynicism,” where concerns about privacy fail to translate into protective actions ...
Tiziano Gerosa, Chiara Respi, Marco Gui
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