Teens' privacy management on video-sharing social media: the roles of perceived privacy risk and parental mediation

Purpose: This study investigates how different parental mediation strategies (active versus restrictive) and teen Douyin users' privacy risk perceptions are associated with their privacy management behaviors. Design/methodology/approach: An online survey with teen Douyin users (N = 500) was adm...

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Main Authors: Kang, Hyunjin, Shin, Wonsun, Huang, Junru
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1604992022-07-25T07:56:37Z Teens' privacy management on video-sharing social media: the roles of perceived privacy risk and parental mediation Kang, Hyunjin Shin, Wonsun Huang, Junru Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Social sciences::Communication Video-Sharing Social Media Perceived Privacy Risk Purpose: This study investigates how different parental mediation strategies (active versus restrictive) and teen Douyin users' privacy risk perceptions are associated with their privacy management behaviors. Design/methodology/approach: An online survey with teen Douyin users (N = 500) was administered in mainland China. Findings: Perceived privacy risk leads teenagers to implement stricter privacy management strategies. However, different types of parental mediation have different impacts on teens' privacy management behaviors. Discussion-based active mediation is positively correlated with privacy disclosure and privacy boundary linkage, while rule-based restrictive mediation is positively associated with privacy boundary control. In addition, active mediation encourages teens to use their own judgment about privacy risks when deciding how much personal information to disclose and with whom they want to share their information. Conversely, restrictive mediation results in teens making decisions about disclosing private information without taking their own risk assessments into account. Originality/value: Video-sharing social media platforms like TikTok and Douyin have become a cultural trend among teen social media users. However, loss of privacy is a potentially serious downside of using such platforms. Despite the platforms' popularity among this age group, little is known about the ways teens manage their privacy on such social media platforms. By examining how teens' privacy risk perception and parental intervention shape three different aspects of privacy boundary management (i.e. privacy disclosure, privacy boundary linkage, and privacy boundary control), this study provides a comprehensive understanding of teen Douyin users' privacy management. Ministry of Education (MOE) The research was supported by the first author's Tier 1 Grant (2019-T1-002-115) from the Ministry of Education, Singapore. 2022-07-25T07:56:37Z 2022-07-25T07:56:37Z 2022 Journal Article Kang, H., Shin, W. & Huang, J. (2022). Teens' privacy management on video-sharing social media: the roles of perceived privacy risk and parental mediation. Internet Research, 32(1), 312-334. https://dx.doi.org/10.1108/INTR-01-2021-0005 1066-2243 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160499 10.1108/INTR-01-2021-0005 2-s2.0-85109413345 1 32 312 334 en 2019-T1-002-115 Internet Research © 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited. All rights reserved.
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topic Social sciences::Communication
Video-Sharing Social Media
Perceived Privacy Risk
spellingShingle Social sciences::Communication
Video-Sharing Social Media
Perceived Privacy Risk
Kang, Hyunjin
Shin, Wonsun
Huang, Junru
Teens' privacy management on video-sharing social media: the roles of perceived privacy risk and parental mediation
description Purpose: This study investigates how different parental mediation strategies (active versus restrictive) and teen Douyin users' privacy risk perceptions are associated with their privacy management behaviors. Design/methodology/approach: An online survey with teen Douyin users (N = 500) was administered in mainland China. Findings: Perceived privacy risk leads teenagers to implement stricter privacy management strategies. However, different types of parental mediation have different impacts on teens' privacy management behaviors. Discussion-based active mediation is positively correlated with privacy disclosure and privacy boundary linkage, while rule-based restrictive mediation is positively associated with privacy boundary control. In addition, active mediation encourages teens to use their own judgment about privacy risks when deciding how much personal information to disclose and with whom they want to share their information. Conversely, restrictive mediation results in teens making decisions about disclosing private information without taking their own risk assessments into account. Originality/value: Video-sharing social media platforms like TikTok and Douyin have become a cultural trend among teen social media users. However, loss of privacy is a potentially serious downside of using such platforms. Despite the platforms' popularity among this age group, little is known about the ways teens manage their privacy on such social media platforms. By examining how teens' privacy risk perception and parental intervention shape three different aspects of privacy boundary management (i.e. privacy disclosure, privacy boundary linkage, and privacy boundary control), this study provides a comprehensive understanding of teen Douyin users' privacy management.
author2 Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
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Kang, Hyunjin
Shin, Wonsun
Huang, Junru
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Shin, Wonsun
Huang, Junru
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title Teens' privacy management on video-sharing social media: the roles of perceived privacy risk and parental mediation
title_short Teens' privacy management on video-sharing social media: the roles of perceived privacy risk and parental mediation
title_full Teens' privacy management on video-sharing social media: the roles of perceived privacy risk and parental mediation
title_fullStr Teens' privacy management on video-sharing social media: the roles of perceived privacy risk and parental mediation
title_full_unstemmed Teens' privacy management on video-sharing social media: the roles of perceived privacy risk and parental mediation
title_sort teens' privacy management on video-sharing social media: the roles of perceived privacy risk and parental mediation
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