Abstract
Items in social media such as photos may be co-owned by multiple users, i.e., the sharing decisions of the ones who upload them have the potential to harm the privacy of the others. Previous works uncovered coping strategies by co-owners to manage their privacy, but mainly focused on general practices and experiences. We establish an empirical base for the prevalence, context and severity of privacy conflicts over co-owned photos. To this aim, a parallel survey of pre-screened 496 uploaders and 537 co-owners collected occurrences and type of conflicts over co-owned photos, and any actions taken towards resolving them. We uncover nuances and complexities not known before, including co-ownership types, and divergences in the assessment of photo audiences. We also find that an all-or-nothing approach seems to dominate conflict resolution, even when parties actually interact and talk about the conflict. Finally, we derive key insights for designing systems to mitigate these divergences and facilitate consensus.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Subtitle of host publication | Explore, Innovate, Inspire |
Place of Publication | New York, USA |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 3821-3832 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Volume | 2017-May |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450346559 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 6 May 2017 |
Event | 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 - Denver, USA United States Duration: 6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017 |
Conference
Conference | 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 |
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Country/Territory | USA United States |
City | Denver |
Period | 6/05/17 → 11/05/17 |
Funding
We would like to thank the EPSRC for supporting this research under grant EP/M027805/1. We also thank Semo Abi-ola for helping code responses to open-ended questions, and Natalia Criado for her comments on draft versions of this paper. Finally, we thank the anonymous Associate Chairs and reviewers for their very helpful comments.
Keywords
- Co-ownership
- Conflicts
- Online social networks
- Photo sharing
- Privacy
- Social media
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
- Software