Strategies and struggles with privacy in an online social networking community

Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction, BCS HCI 2008

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 111-119

  Strater, Katherine ^a   Lipford, Heather Richter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Online social networks; Privacy

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY;

FACEBOOK; MYSPACE; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; ONLINE PRIVACY; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKINGS; PERSONAL INFORMATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84923802627     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2008.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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