Communication Privacy Management Theory: Exploring Coordination and Ownership Between Friends

Researchers in this study explored friends’ boundary coordination and ownership surrounding private information as posed by Communication Privacy Management theory. One hundred pairs of friends (N = 200) completed measures about the risk of a prior disclosure and the degree of discussion about who could/could not know the information. In support of Communication Privacy Management theory, disclosers engaged in greater boundary coordination when the information was riskier. When the information was riskier, disclosers and receivers perceived that the receivers had less ownership rights over the information. Disclosers reported negative emotional reactions to hypothetical dissemination of higher-risk information when they perceived their friends as having less ownership, but positive emotional reactions of lower-risk information when they perceived their friends as having more ownership. Receivers were more likely to disseminate the information when they perceived they had ownership over the information.     

Military Wives' Stressful Disclosures to Their Deployed Husbands: The Role of Protective Buffering

This study combines the fever model with communication privacy management to examine the conditions under which military wives are likely to disclose their family stressors or engage in protective buffering with their deployed husbands. Military wives (N =105) whose husbands were deployed and who had at least one child completed a web-based survey about the communication of family stressors during deployment. Protective buffering was associated with negative health symptoms, and disclosure was related to marital satisfaction. Wives' perceptions that their husbands were in dangerous situations as well as their perceptions that husbands were supportive of their disclosures were both related to protective buffering and disclosure.     

试论教师的教学生活

教学是教师的一种生活方式、存在方式,对于教师而言,内在地具有生活的意味,就是生活本身,我们称之为"教学生活"。关注教师的教学生活能促进教师专业发展,提高教学质量和教师自身话语权。对教学生活本质和价值的把握有助于分析教学生活异化现象的原因。在此基础上,从外在和内在因素两个角度复归教师教学生活本真状态是可取之径。     

Self-disclosure in mobile payment applications: Common and differential effects of personal and proxy control enhancing mechanisms

This study seeks to examine consumers’ self-disclosure in mobile payment (MP) applications by highlight the value of personal and proxy control enhancing mechanisms: perceived effectiveness of privacy setting and perceived effectiveness of privacy policy. To empirically validate the model, we conducted two quantitative survey studies in the same research inquiry. The empirical results suggest that perceived benefits, perceived effectiveness of privacy setting, perceived effectiveness of privacy policy, and perceived risks together predict perceived value and psychological comfort, which further determine consumers’ self-disclosure in MP applications. This study contributes to the information privacy literature by highlighting personal and proxy control enhancing mechanisms to promote consumers’ self-disclosure in MP applications.     

Contact tracing apps and values dilemmas: A privacy paradox in a neo-liberal world

Contact tracing apps are presented as a solution, if not the solution, to curb pandemics in the Covid-19 crisis. In France, despite heated public institutional debate on privacy related issues, the app was presented by government as an essential benefit for protecting health and lives, thus avoiding both politicians and citizens to feel morally responsible and looking guilty, and as essential to recover our freedom to move. However we argue that, while detection of cases have still not been reported after 10 days and one million app downloads - a situation comparable to Australia who launched its app a month before -, the adoption of the app generates important risks to our informational privacy, surveillance and habituation to security policies. It also may create discrimination, distrust and generate other health problems such as addiction and others as 5G technology continues to be deployed without prior impact studies. Finally the smartphone app against covid epidemics appears as an extreme case of the privacy paradox where the government plays on the immediate benefits and downplays long-term concerns while inducing a technology of self. Contact tracing apps may become an emblematic case for digital transformation and value changes in the western world.     

Designing databases that enhance people’s privacy without hindering organizations

We argue that future database systems must provide autonomy for individuals for the privacy of data they manage. We propose a design for such a system, identify challenges and problems, and suggest some approaches to these. We enunciate the reasons for informational self-determination systems, which include legal, organizational and technical issues. Our main goal is to achieve a widely-accepted realistic and practical solution in order to ensure privacy for individuals in our future world, yet without hindering business and security.     

Self-Reported Sexual Functioning Concerns Among Undergraduate Students

Researchers who have studied sexual functioning concerns do not often focus their research on undergraduate populations, perhaps due to perceptions of universal sexual health among this population. The current study examined prevalence and type of sexual functioning concerns in a sample of 347 male and female undergraduate students. Sexual functioning concerns were identified by the sample and suggest a range of sexual concerns and experiences. Results indicated that although many undergraduate students do not meet established criteria for a sexual dysfunction, they may experience sexual problems.     

框架式电子白板的教师关注差异研究——基于香港学校的分析

电子白板在香港中小学的应用越来越广泛.作为一项教育中的技术创新,教师在应用框架式电子白板时会表现出不同关注.文章采用教师关注度模型,探究教师在应用这项创新技术时在评价、信息、管理、影响、再关注五个维度所表现的特点和差异.研究发现,教师在应用框架式电子白板时有不同关注,并且在不同维度的侧重点不同;不同学段的教师对白板的关注存在差异;使用年限不同的教师具有不同的关注.     

社会化媒体下的信息安全技术研究

社会化媒体方兴未艾,由此产生的信息安全问题也日渐显露。文章分析了社会化媒体的特点、面临的安全威胁,并从信息监督、隐私保护等方面,探讨了当前社会化媒体下信息安全的关键技术,以期为构建安全的社会化媒体环境提供技术参考。     

What improves citizens’ privacy perceptions toward RFID technology? A cross-country investigation using mixed method approach

Privacy is a serious concern to radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Worldwide, several companies scrapped RFID projects because of high resistance from consumers and their advocacy groups – which actually demand RFID-specific privacy policies. This concern is even more acute when RFID is used in public applications; because, in general case, citizens cannot refuse to provide data, and the data collected by a government agency would offer serious threats if are shared among third parties. Limited research has been performed in this specific issue; they all agree that perceived privacy increased RFID acceptance. But, what drives privacy perceptions are yet to be researched – this study closes this research gap. In order to conduct the current research, mixed method of research approach has been adopted. In the qualitative research stage, the authors conducted two focused-group discussion sessions and eight in-depth interviews in two different countries: Australia and Bangladesh; arguing that the status, and the perceptions and tolerance of the citizens on privacy are different in these two regions. The explored factors have been examined with empirical data obtained from these two countries. It is found that, there are distinct differences in perceptions in developed and developing countries. The detail findings offer practical suggestions to the agency managers so that they can ensure better privacy of the citizens. As a significant theoretical contribution, this study enhances existing literature identifying the antecedents of privacy, which play even different roles in different cultural backgrounds.