[Air-L] New Special Issue in Social Media + Society on Comparative Privacy

[Christoph Lutz]

   Dear AoIR Subscribers,

   We would like to bring your attention to a new special issue in Social
   Media + Society that was recently completed. The special issue
   "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy" includes ten
   methodologically and contextually diverse articles, plus an editorial.
   Together, these contributions showcase the value of comparative privacy
   research. We believe that the special issue is relevant for many
   Internet researchers and hope that it proves useful for the community.
   Here is the link to the full special issue:
   [1]https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-sms/sms-1-comparative
   _approaches_to_studying_privacy?publicationCode=sms

   Below is a list of all 11 contributions, with links to the papers.

   1) "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy: Introduction to the
   Special Issue" by Christoph Lutz, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, Dmitry
   Epstein, Philipp K. Masur and Carsten Wilhelm introduces the special
   issue and the Comparative Privacy Research Framework (CPRF) as a
   conceptual foundation for context-sensitive privacy
   research. [2]https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251344460

   2) "Attitudes on Data Use for Public Benefit: Investigating
   Context-Specific Differences Across Germany, Spain, and the United
   Kingdom with a Longitudinal Survey Experiment" by Frederic
   Gerdon compares attitudes on the use of data for public benefit across
   Germany, Spain, and the
   UK. [3]https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301202

   3) "It's Fine If Others Do It Too: Privacy Concerns, Social Influence,
   and Political Expression on Facebook in Canada, France, Germany, the
   United Kingdom, and the United States" by Christian Pieter Hoffmann and
   Shelley Boulianne investigates the relationship between privacy
   concerns, social influence, and online political expression on Facebook
   across five Western
   democracies. [4]https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241290334

   4) "Online Privacy, Young People, and Datafication: Different
   Perceptions About Online Privacy Across Antigua & Barbuda, Australia,
   Ghana, and Slovenia" by Rys Farthing, Katja Koren Ošljak, Teki
   Akuetteh, Kadian Camacho, Genevieve Smith-Nunes and Jun Zhao explores
   how young people’s awareness of datafication shape their understandings
   of online privacy in countries in the global south and
   north. [5]https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241298042

   5) "Understanding the Motivations of Young Adults to Engage in Privacy
   Protection Behavior While Setting Up Smartphone Apps: A Cross-Country
   Comparison Between Romania and Germany" Delia Cristina Balaban, Maria
   Mustățea and Valeriu Frunzaru explores motivations behind young adults'
   privacy protection behaviors when configuring smartphone apps in
   Germany and Romania. [6]https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241298042

   6) "Conversation-Related Advertising and Electronic Eavesdropping:
   Mapping Perceptions of Phones Listening for Advertising in the United
   States, the Netherlands, and Poland" by Claire M. Segijn, Joanna
   Strycharz, Anna Turner and Suzanna J. Opree examines the belief that
   mobile devices eavesdrop on offline conversations for advertising
   purposes across three countries with different regulatory contexts and
   surveillance histories. [7]https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241288448

   7) "Turn It on! Turn It on? Privacy Management of Pupils and Teachers
   in Online Learning During COVID-19 Lockdowns in Germany and Israel" by
   Leyla Dogruel, Dmitri Epstein, Sven Joeckel and Nicholas John studies
   how students and teachers in Germany and Israel negotiated privacy and
   visibility during the shift to emergency remote teaching in the wake of
   COVID-19 pandemic, finding striking similarities despite different
   cultural and legal
   contexts. [8]https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301841

   8) "AI Privacy in Context: A Comparative Study of Public and
   Institutional Discourse on Conversational AI Privacy in the US and
   Chinese Social Media" by Renwen Zhang, Han Li, Anfan Chen, Zihan Liu
   and Yi-Chieh Lee compares public and institutional discourses on AI
   privacy on Twitter (US) and Weibo (China), revealing divergent patterns
   shaped by cultural, political, and economic
   factors. [9]https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241290845

   9) "'(Virtuous) Wives Don't Have Anything to Hide': Understanding
   Digital Privacy Perceptions and Behavior of Married Women in Rural
   India" by Debjani Chakraborty and Chhavi Garg examines how married
   women in rural India navigate digital privacy, balancing cultural norms
   of being "hidden" online while having "nothing to hide" from
   family. [10]https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251313665

   10) "(Lack of) Patterns in Commitment: Data Protection in the Latin
   America and Caribbean Personal Data Protection Laws" by Elías
   Chavarría-Mora analyzes and maps the data protection laws across 25
   countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, discovering large
   variability that does not follow clear geographic patterns while also
   identifying key areas of convergence attributed to a Brussels
   effect. [11]https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251337206
   11) "A Triple-Layered Comparative Approach to Understanding New Privacy
   Policy Practices of Digital Platforms and Users in China After
   Implementation of the PIPL" by Liming Liu and Yiming Chen analyzes how
   three platforms - WeChat, Taobao, and Douyin -  implement privacy
   policies after China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL),
   revealing how state-dominant discourses legitimize authority over user
   data.
   [12]https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301265

References

   1. https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-sms/sms-1-comparative_approaches_to_studying_privacy?publicationCode=sms
   2. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251344460
   3. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301202
   4. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241290334
   5. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241298042
   6. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241298042
   7. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241288448
   8. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301841
   9. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241290845
  10. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251313665
  11. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251337206
  12. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301265