~ privacy attitudes and expectations of bloggers.
Karen Mc Cullagh is a PhD researcher at CCSR, University of Manchester, England. She is sponsored by the ESRC and Office of the Information Commissioner, UK and she is conducting an online survey to explore the privacy attitudes and expectations of bloggers.
The number of blog writers and readers has grown enormously in the last few years. Moreover, blogs are permeating most niches of social life, addressing a range of topics from scholarly and political issues to family and children’s daily lives. By their very nature, blogs raise a number of privacy issues. On the one hand, they are easy to produce and disseminate. At the same time, they are persistent and cumulative, resulting in large amounts of sometimes personal information being broadcast across the Internet
Blogging has the power to affect not only the lives of bloggers themselves but also of the people, companies, and products that are “blogged.” For example, accounts of bloggers hurting friends’ feelings or losing their jobs because of materials published on their sites are becoming more frequent. Therefore, it is important to understand how accountability and privacy expectations function in this emergent media.
If you participate you will be asked to answer questions anonymously about your blogging practices and your expectations of privacy when publishing online. All answers will be stored and analysed on a confidential basis. The responses will be used to inform academic and policy discussions on logging practices and attitudes towards privacy.
All answers will be stored and analysed on a confidential basis.
The responses will be used to inform academic and policy discussions on blogging practices and attitudes towards privacy.
Please click to take part in the survey: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/privacysurvey
For further information on the reasearch done by Karen please visit: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/km.htm
or email: Karen.mccullagh@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
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