CyLab presents Lorrie Cranor, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, as part of the weekly seminar series.
Anecdotal evidence and scholarly research have shown that a significant portion of Internet users experience regrets over their social network disclosures. To help individuals avoid regrettable disclosures, we employed lessons from behavioral decision research and soft paternalism to design mechanisms that "nudge" users to consider the content and context of their online disclosures more carefully. We developed three privacy nudges for Facebook, focusing on visual cues about the audience, time delays, and feedback mechanisms. I will talk about how our research on regrettable disclosures on social networks informed our Facebook privacy nudge designs and present results of our field trials. While nudges are designed to encourage self-censorship, many social network users already practice self-censorship regularly. I will also discuss a study in which we explored self-censorship on Facebook by asking participants to report all content that they thought about sharing but decided not to share on Facebook for a week. Our results shed light on the types of content users tend to self-censor as well as the difficulties Facebook users have in precisely targeting content to a desired audience.
- Lorrie Cranor - Privacy Nudges and Self-Censorship on Social Media ( Download)
- Let’s Talk Privacy & Technology E7, Lorrie Cranor: Automated Privacy Consent ( Download)
- Has social media made us all better as self censorship ( Download)
- A Field Trial of Privacy Nudges for Facebook ( Download)
- The #ConsideredView @StephenGrootes on self-censorship ( Download)
- Exploring Nudge Designs to Help Adolescent SNS Users Avoid Privacy and Safety Threats ( Download)
- Online Surveillance Causes Self-Censorship ( Download)
- Making Privacy Personal: Profiling Users’ Privacy Management Strategies on Social Networking Sites ( Download)
- 1:4 Nudge Enhances Video + Social ( Download)
- Facebook, College, Privacy and Self-Censorship ( Download)
- Greg's Daily Nudge-Invest in Social Media. It will make you better ( Download)
- Privacy Conference: Technology to Enhance or Replace End User Responsibility for Privacy ( Download)
- Self-Censorship ( Download)
- Nudging Your People towards Entrepreneurialship ( Download)
- Samia Halaby on Self-Censorship ( Download)
