Privacy controls and content sharing patterns of online social network users: A natural experiment

International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013): Reshaping Society Through Information Systems Design

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages 3140-3148

  Cavusoglu, Huseyin ^a   Phan, Tuan Q ^b   Cavusoglu, Hasan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information sharing; Online social network; Privacy; Privacy management

Indexed keywords

CONTENT SHARING; INFORMATION SHARING; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS (OSN); PRIVACY CONTROL; PRIVACY MANAGEMENT; PRIVACY POLICIES;

DATA PRIVACY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84897808485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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