Privacy preserving actions of older adults on social media: Exploring the behavior of opting out of information sharing

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 948-956

  Chakraborty, Rajarshi ^a   Vishik, Claire ^b   Rao, H Raghav ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Intel Corporation   (United Kingdom)

^c Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Facebook; Information sharing; Older adults; Peer influence; Privacy preserving; Similarity index; Social media

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; INFORMATION SHARING; OLDER ADULTS; PEER INFLUENCE; PRIVACY PRESERVING; SIMILARITY INDICES; SOCIAL MEDIA;

DATA PRIVACY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84884207022     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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