Risk-taking as a Learning Process for Shaping Teen's Online Information Privacy Behaviors
Abstract
Through a secondary data analysis of a nationally representative Pew survey [35-36], we empirically test the validity of two contrasting theoretical models of adolescent information privacy behaviors. Our results suggest that in seeking to understand the underlying processes of teens' privacy risk-taking and risk-coping behaviors within social media, a "risk-centric" framework may be more useful than a traditional "concern-centric" framework that emphasizes privacy antecedents and outcomes. Our newly proposed and validated "risk-centric" framework implies a possible risk escalation process wherein teens make online disclosures and render themselves more susceptible to experiences of risky online interactions; in turn, these risky experiences are associated with higher levels of teen privacy concern. Higher levels of teen privacy concern predict both advice-seeking and remedy/corrective risk-coping behaviors. Drawing on theories of information privacy and developmental psychology, we discuss these findings from the perspective of allowing teens to experience some level of online risk so that they can learn how to navigate the dangers and reap the benefits of online engagement.
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In the context of social networking sites, teenagers in particular operate under bounded rationality and risk assessment takes place according to personal experiences pertaining to privacy invasion and not hypothetically in advance.
“In the context of social networking sites, teenagers in particular operate under bounded rationality and risk assessment takes place according to personal experiences pertaining to privacy invasion and not hypothetically in advance (Jia et al., 2015).”
From The privacy paradox – investigating discrepancies between expressed privacy concerns and actual online behavior – a systematic literature review (2017) · cites this paper as Jia et al., 2015
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- Authors
- Jia, H., Wisniewski, P. J., Xu, H., Rosson, M. B., & Carroll, J. M.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2015-02-28
- Pages
- 583-599
- OpenAlex
- W2161361013
- Cited by
- 70
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 27.93
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (CNS-1018302)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information and Cyber Security
- Keywords
- privacy concerns, social media, online self-disclosure, risk escalation, advice seeking
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