[ecrea] CFP Cyberpsychology: Online Self-Disclosure and Privacy

Online self-disclosure and privacy: Unravelling individuals’ motivations 
and behaviors.

Cyberpsychology: The Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace 
announces a call for a special issue to be published in 2016.

The special issue invites papers that extend our understanding of online 
self-disclosure decisions and privacy-protective behaviors.
Topics suitable for this special issue could include, but are not 
limited to, the following:

- Cross-cultural or intergenerational comparisons with respect to online 
self-disclosure and privacy protection
- Longitudinal analyses of online privacy related decision-making
- Social network site users' privacy risk awareness, privacy protection 
strategies and behaviors
- Privacy concerns in new areas of computing (e.g., mobile apps, cloud 
services, wearables, biometrical data)
- Personalisation in online marketing and consumers’ privacy concerns
- The influence or adoption of privacy enhancing technologies
- A ‘privacy paradox’? Privacy-related attitudes versus privacy 
protective behaviors
- The application of (privacy) theories to online privacy decision-making
- Users' awareness of the unintended consequences of online 
self-disclosure on social network sites
- The extent to which the openness of a channel/app affects 
self-disclosure among peers
- Public intimacy on social network sites: revealing emotions and 
secrets to elicit peer feedback
- Ambient intimacy: developing a feeling of intimacy by following the 
(intimate) self-disclosure of others on social media
- The impact of extreme posts on social network sites on impression 
formation about the posts' author
- Intimate self-disclosures: motives and consequences of sexting
- Partner surveillance or social network site users’ voyeurism on social 
network sites
- Factors affecting the use of privacy settings or other forms of online 
privacy protection (e.g., social steganography, whitewalling, super 
log-offs)
- Sharenting: parents' disclosure of children's personal data and pictures
- Adolescents' online self-disclosure and privacy protective strategies
- The effects of online privacy education or awareness raising on 
individuals' decision-making

Also other topics not specifically mentioned are welcome, on the 
condition that they fit within the scope of the special issue.

The special issue will be edited by:
Michel Walrave (1), Sonja Utz (2), Alexander Schouten (3) and Wannes 
Heirman (1)

(1) Department of Communication Sciences, University of Antwerp
(2) Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Eberhard Karls University of 
Tübingen
(3) Department of Communication and Information Sciences, Tilburg University

Interested in submitting your contribution to this special issue?

Please contact Michel Walrave to express your interest 
((michel.walrave /at/ uantwerpen.be)) on 15 November 2015 at the latest.
Include a 500-word abstract and also your contact information. Please 
specify your affiliations in a biographical note (up to 75 words).
The authors of the submitted abstracts will be notified by 30 November 2015.

The ideal manuscript length is between 7,000 and 8,000 words. Authors 
should adhere to the guidelines provided on the journal’s website 
(http://www.cyberpsychology.eu/submission.php).

The deadline for submission of full papers is 1 February 2016. All 
papers will be subject to anonymous peer review following submission.
Acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee the acceptance of the full 
paper for publication.

The 'Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace' is 
a webbased, peer-reviewed scholarly journal.
The first peer-reviewed issue was published in September 2007. The 
journal is focused on social science research about cyberspace.
It brings psychosocial reflections of the impact of the Internet on 
people and society.  The journal is interdisciplinary, publishing works
written by scholars of psychology, media studies, communication science, 
sociology, political science, nursing, ICT security,
organizational psychology and also other disciplines with relevance to 
psychosocial aspects of cyberspace.
The journal accepts original research articles, as well as theoretical 
studies and research meta-analyses.
Proposals for special issues are also welcomed.
The journal is indexed with SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, EBSCO Academic Search 
Complete, the Directory of Open Access Journals
and the Czech Database of Scientific Journals.
The articles in Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on 
Cyberspace are open access articles
licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 
Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted,
non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, 
provided the work is properly cited.

The CFP can be downloaded from 
http://www.cyberpsychology.eu/call-privacy.pdf

More information about the journal on http://www.cyberpsychology.eu/




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