Gutenberg Open Science: How online privacy literacy supports self-data protection and self-determination in the age of information

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dc.contributor.author	Masur, Philipp K.	-
dc.date.accessioned	2020-07-13T08:51:44Z	-
dc.date.available	2020-07-13T08:51:44Z	-
dc.date.issued	2020	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/4970	-
dc.description.abstract	Current debates on online privacy are rooted in liberal theory. Accordingly, privacy is often regarded as a form of freedom from social, economic, and institutional influences. Such a negative perspective on privacy, however, focuses too much on how individuals can be protected or can protect themselves, instead of challenging the necessity of protection itself. In this article, I argue that increasing online privacy literacy not only empowers individuals to achieve (a necessarily limited) form of negative privacy, but has the potential to facilitate a privacy deliberation process in which individuals become agents of social change that could lead to conditions of positive privacy and informational self-determination. To this end, I propose a four-dimensional model of online privacy literacy that encompasses factual privacy knowledge, privacy-related reflection abilities, privacy and data protection skills, and critical privacy literacy. I then outline how this combination of knowledge, abilities, and skills 1) enables to individuals to protect themselves against some horizontal and vertical privacy intrusions and 2) motivates individuals to critically challenge the social structures and power relations that necessitate the need for protection in the first place. Understanding these processes, as well as critically engaging with the normative premises and implications of the predominant negative concepts of privacy, offers a more nuanced direction for future research on online privacy literacy and privacy in general.	en_GB
dc.description.sponsorship	DFG, Open Access-Publizieren Universität Mainz / Universitätsmedizin Mainz	de
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	300 Sozialwissenschaften	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	300 Social sciences	en_GB
dc.title	How online privacy literacy supports self-data protection and self-determination in the age of information	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-4967	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	-
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport	de
jgu.organisation.number	7910	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	Media and communication	de
jgu.journal.volume	8	de
jgu.journal.issue	2	de
jgu.pages.start	258	de
jgu.pages.end	269	de
jgu.publisher.year	2020	-
jgu.publisher.name	Cogitation	de
jgu.publisher.place	Lisbon	de
jgu.publisher.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2855	de
jgu.publisher.issn	2183-2439	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	300	de
jgu.publisher.doi	10.17645/mac.v8i2.2855
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485
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