CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Harutyunyan, Shushan |
|---|---|
| Title | The Culture of Self-disclosure and Privacy Issues in Facebook: Gender Implications |
| Summary | This thesis discusses Facebook social design that encourages users conscious or unconscious disclosure of own private information. Having a predisposition that both institutions of personal and informational privacy are absolutely questionable in Facebook, I analyze users’ motives of self-disclosure in a line with social benefits that Facebook offers to understand the privacy issue in Facebook. I propose that users posses illusionary control over their “appearance” on Facebook - they have some control over their self-presentation, but not total control, since their online social circles provide identity validation or refutation. I also propose that users in Facebook gain the desire and delusion to believe they the center of the “universe”, because it empowers and isolates each user with own social circle to act upon. Consequently, privacy rights are compromised in Facebook, because users are expected to create and share content about themselves in order to be sociable to benefit from Facebook, but if sociability and content sharing are promoted, personal privacy is a subject to threats. The privacy violation cases including scams, “stalking”, identity theft, harassment and cyberbullying are common among female users on Facebook, because they are the more sociable and sharing more. The consequences are irrevocable. |
| Supervisor | Sándor, Judit |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/harutyunyan_shushan.pdf |
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