The Routledge Handbook of Privacy and Social Media

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of privacy and social media, featuring insights from various disciplines and addressing key issues for future research and policy.

This volume serves as a foundational text for contemporary research on privacy and social media, providing insights that inform both global and local initiatives aimed at addressing social media privacy issues. Through a combination of research, policymaking, and education, it highlights the importance of understanding privacy in the digital age. The contributions from various scholars across disciplines such as communication, psychology, philosophy, informatics, and law reflect on a decade of privacy research and offer projections for future developments in this critical area.

The text begins with an overview of significant scholarship related to online privacy and expands to examine the various factors that shape people's perceptions and behaviors regarding privacy. Key influences such as culture, gender, and trust are thoroughly discussed, along with specific concerns related to vulnerable populations, including children and older adults. Additionally, the book explores how privacy is managed in the context of interactions with artificial intelligence, addressing the implications of these interactions on privacy norms and expectations.

Concluding with discussions on practical solutions to pressing online privacy questions, The Routledge Handbook of Privacy and Social Media is an essential resource for advanced students, scholars, and policymakers in communication studies, digital media studies, psychology, and computer science. Notably, Chapters 22 and 30 are available as free Open Access PDFs, allowing wider accessibility to vital information on this important subject.