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Strengthening children's privacy literacy through contextual integrity
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Abstract Researchers and policymakers advocate teaching children about digital privacy, but privacy literacy has not been theorized for children. Drawing on interviews with 30 families, including 40 children, we analyze children’s perspectives on password management in three contexts -family life, friendship... view more
Researchers and policymakers advocate teaching children about digital privacy, but privacy literacy has not been theorized for children. Drawing on interviews with 30 families, including 40 children, we analyze children’s perspectives on password management in three contexts -family life, friendship, and education- and develop a new approach to privacy literacy grounded in Nissenbaum’s contextual integrity framework. Contextual integrity equates privacy with appropriate flows of information, and we show how children’s perceptions of the appropriateness of disclosing a password varied across contexts. We explain why privacy literacy should focus on norms rather than rules and discuss how adults can use learning moments to strengthen children’s privacy literacy. We argue that equipping children to make privacy-related decisions serves them better than instructing them to follow privacy-related rules.... view less
Keywords
child; digitalization; technology; learning; data protection; privacy; data
Classification
Sociology of the Youth, Sociology of Childhood
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
contextual integrity; learning moments; password management; privacy education; privacy literacy; transmission principles
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 175-184
Journal
Media and Communication, 8 (2020) 4
Issue topic
Children's voices on privacy management and data responsibilization
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed