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JASIST Special Issue on “Information Privacy in the Digital Age”
*Submission deadline: August 31, 2019
Human interactions at all levels (individual, group,
organizational, and societal) are increasingly supported and
organized by digital and networked technologies. Individuals’
personal information is transmitted and transacted across all
sorts of networks, often beyond the individual’s control.
Problematic practices in how companies handle personal
information—as spotlighted by the recent Cambridge Analytica
scandal and Equifax security breach—raise wide concerns for
information privacy. Indeed, many would concur with Acquisti,
Brandimarte, and Loewenstein’s (2015) statement: “If this is the
age of information, then privacy is the issue of our times” (p.
509).
While few would argue against the significance and urgency of
privacy research, there are considerable gaps in the literature,
particularly on how to conceptualize privacy in the digital age
and how to improve industry practices to better protect the
personal information of individuals and groups (Wu, Vitak, &
Zimmer 2019). This special issue of the Journal of the Association
for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) is intended to
push the boundaries of privacy research and challenge academics
and practitioners to come up with innovative ideas in theorizing
and resolving privacy-related issues within diverse contexts. We
invite potential authors to ask
“What are the important characteristics of privacy in the digital
age, and how can we best address privacy challenges through
academic research, system design, and policy intervention?”
The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to,
theory development and empirical investigation in the areas of:
*Theorization of privacy in the digital age
- Critically appraising traditional paradigms of privacy and
conceptualizing information privacy in digital and networked
environments
- Theorizing implications of new technologies for privacy
management (e.g., big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of
Things)
- Extending existing theories of privacy in digital contexts
(e.g., communication privacy management, privacy calculus,
contextual integrity)
*Psychology and behavioral economics of information privacy
- Individual and collective privacy perceptions and behaviors
online
- Cognitive biases and bounded rationality in online privacy
decision making
- Motivations (or lack thereof) for information privacy protection
- Socio-psychological mechanisms underneath the privacy paradox
*Socioeconomic, cultural, and ethical issues in privacy research
- Privacy challenges and policy implications for marginalized
populations (e.g., minorities, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+
communities, and other disadvantaged individuals in the digital
age)
- Cultural differences in information privacy perceptions and
practices
- Ethical considerations in conducting empirical research using
privacy-sensitive, digital data
*Design for privacy protection
- Innovative ideas that advance “privacy by design”
- Novel, privacy-sensitive and privacy-enhancing system designs
based on rigorous experimental or ethnographic research
- Challenges and solutions of system design in the context of
evolving privacy laws and regulations (e.g., GDPR).
*Submission Guidelines
Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have
carefully read the JASIST Submission Guidelines
(
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2330-1643/homepage/ForAuthors.html).
The complete manuscript should be submitted through JASIST’s
Submission System (
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jasist). To
ensure that your submission is routed properly, please select
“Yes” in response to the question, “Is this submission for a
special issue?” and specify “Special Issue on Information Privacy
in the Digital Age” when prompted later.
*Guest Editors
Philip Fei Wu, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
(
philip.wu@rhul.ac.uk)
Jessica Vitak, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
(
jvitak@umd.edu)
Michael T Zimmer, Marquette University, USA
(
michael.zimmer@marquette.edu)
*Reference Cited
Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2015).
Privacy and human behavior in the age of information. Science,
347(6221), 509–514.
Wu, P. F., Vitak, J., & Zimmer, M. T. (2019). A contextual
approach to information privacy research. Journal of the
Association for Information Science and Technology.
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