Who can see my stuff?: online self-disclosure and gender differences on Facebook

• Autores: Manuela Farinosi, Sakari Taipale
• Localización: Observatorio (OBS*), ISSN-e 1646-5954, Vol. 12, No 1, 2018, págs. 53-71
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This study investigates the gendered privacy practices and concerns on Facebook, by leaning on the idea of privacy management as a form of digital labour. We analyse if young Facebook users are more concerned about the privacy against other users than against Facebook as a company or against third-party partners. We also analyse if privacy concerns and visibility rules are differentiated by gender. Using a structured online survey, we collected responses from a sample of 813 Italian university students (aged 18-34). Our results show that the respondents have just slightly more privacy concerns against other users than against Facebook, and much less against third-party partners. Unlike a majority of previous studies, we show that women are consistently more concerned about privacy-related risks than men, which can be associated with efforts to take care of digital labour in their everyday life.