The NCASD Lab was well-represented at this year’s American Sociological Association meeting.
Emma Spiro presented work on self-disclosure norms on Facebook. A key component of self-presentation is the decision to reveal or conceal information about one’s person or circumstances. The online environment provides a unique opportunity for comparative study of such privacy-related behavior, both because of its relative newness and because of the opportunities it affords for systematic behavioral measurement on a global scale. The project users data from a probability sample of over 1 million Facebook users, in order to relate online privacy awareness behaviors in 217 countries to the social, political, and economic factors that shape the context of social interaction.