TY - JOUR
T1 - Expectations vs reality
T2 - teenager views of institutional privacy
AU - Ruppert, Janet
AU - Kumar, Priya C.
AU - Howard, Anna
AU - Roque, Ricarose
AU - Shapiro, R. Benjamin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Teenagers are growing up under pervasive networks of institutional surveillance. However, prior work on teens’ privacy attitudes and practices has largely focused on parental or peer surveillance. To explore how teenagers understand privacy in the context of institutional surveillance, we interviewed twelve teenagers residing in the US on location-tracking within high schools, which are primary sites of youth institutional surveillance. Using the contextual integrity framework, a structured approach to analyzing privacy, we address the following research questions: How do changes in the parameters of technology-driven information flows in high schools affect teenagers’ assessments of whether such flows are appropriate? What contextual values inform teenagers’ views of the appropriateness of technology-driven information flows in high schools? We found participants’ evaluations of institutional surveillance most often considered how the technology would impact the values of safety, autonomy, and community. We found large gaps between teenagers’ prescriptive norms and descriptive norms, which indicate that teenagers frequently experience institutional privacy violations, leading many to view such violations as inevitable and hold feelings of surveillance realism. We call for more research around young people and institutional privacy, and for teenage privacy education to engage in critical discussions and hands-on decision-making about privacy at the institutional level.
AB - Teenagers are growing up under pervasive networks of institutional surveillance. However, prior work on teens’ privacy attitudes and practices has largely focused on parental or peer surveillance. To explore how teenagers understand privacy in the context of institutional surveillance, we interviewed twelve teenagers residing in the US on location-tracking within high schools, which are primary sites of youth institutional surveillance. Using the contextual integrity framework, a structured approach to analyzing privacy, we address the following research questions: How do changes in the parameters of technology-driven information flows in high schools affect teenagers’ assessments of whether such flows are appropriate? What contextual values inform teenagers’ views of the appropriateness of technology-driven information flows in high schools? We found participants’ evaluations of institutional surveillance most often considered how the technology would impact the values of safety, autonomy, and community. We found large gaps between teenagers’ prescriptive norms and descriptive norms, which indicate that teenagers frequently experience institutional privacy violations, leading many to view such violations as inevitable and hold feelings of surveillance realism. We call for more research around young people and institutional privacy, and for teenage privacy education to engage in critical discussions and hands-on decision-making about privacy at the institutional level.
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U2 - 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2423345
DO - 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2423345
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85209577703
SN - 1369-118X
JO - Information Communication and Society
JF - Information Communication and Society
ER -