[Commlist] New Special Issue in Social Media + Society on Comparative Privacy

Christoph Lutz  would like to bring your attention to a new special 
issue in /Social Media + Society/ that was recently completed. The 
special issue "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy" includes ten 
methodologically and contextually diverse articles, plus an editorial. 
Together, these contributions showcase the value of comparative privacy 
research. We believe that the special issue is relevant for many 
communication and media scholars and hope that it proves useful for the 
community.


Here is the link to the full special issue: 
https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-sms/sms-1-comparative_approaches_to_studying_privacy?publicationCode=sms 



Below is a list of all contributions.

1) "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy: Introduction to the 
Special Issue" by Christoph Lutz, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, Dmitry 
Epstein, Philipp K. Masur and Carsten Wilhelm introduces the special 
issue and the Comparative Privacy Research Framework (CPRF) as a 
conceptual foundation for context-sensitive privacy research. 
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251344460 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251344460>

2) "Attitudes on Data Use for Public Benefit: Investigating 
Context-Specific Differences Across Germany, Spain, and the United 
Kingdom with a Longitudinal Survey Experiment" by Frederic 
Gerdon compares attitudes on the use of data for public benefit across 
Germany, Spain, and the UK. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301202 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301202>

3) "It's Fine If Others Do It Too: Privacy Concerns, Social Influence, 
and Political Expression on Facebook in Canada, France, Germany, the 
United Kingdom, and the United States" by Christian Pieter Hoffmann and 
Shelley Boulianne investigates the relationship between privacy 
concerns, social influence, and online political expression on Facebook 
across five Western democracies. 
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241290334 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241290334>

4) "Online Privacy, Young People, and Datafication: Different 
Perceptions About Online Privacy Across Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, 
Ghana, and Slovenia" by Rys Farthing, Katja Koren Ošljak, Teki Akuetteh, 
Kadian Camacho, Genevieve Smith-Nunes and Jun Zhao explores how young 
people’s awareness of datafication shape their understandings of online 
privacy in countries in the global south and north. 
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241298042 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241298042>

5) "Understanding the Motivations of Young Adults to Engage in Privacy 
Protection Behavior While Setting Up Smartphone Apps: A Cross-Country 
Comparison Between Romania and Germany" Delia Cristina Balaban, Maria 
Mustățea and Valeriu Frunzaru explores motivations behind young adults' 
privacy protection behaviors when configuring smartphone apps in Germany 
and Romania. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241298042 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241298042>

6) "Conversation-Related Advertising and Electronic Eavesdropping: 
Mapping Perceptions of Phones Listening for Advertising in the United 
States, the Netherlands, and Poland" by Claire M. Segijn, Joanna 
Strycharz, Anna Turner and Suzanna J. Opree examines the belief that 
mobile devices eavesdrop on offline conversations for advertising 
purposes across three countries with different regulatory contexts and 
surveillance histories. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241288448 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241288448>

7) "Turn It on! Turn It on? Privacy Management of Pupils and Teachers in 
Online Learning During COVID-19 Lockdowns in Germany and Israel" by 
Leyla Dogruel, Dmitri Epstein, Sven Joeckel and Nicholas John studies 
how students and teachers in Germany and Israel negotiated privacy and 
visibility during the shift to emergency remote teaching in the wake of 
COVID-19 pandemic, finding striking similarities despite different 
cultural and legal contexts. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301841 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301841>

8) "AI Privacy in Context: A Comparative Study of Public and 
Institutional Discourse on Conversational AI Privacy in the US and 
Chinese Social Media" by Renwen Zhang, Han Li, Anfan Chen, Zihan Liu and 
Yi-Chieh Lee compares public and institutional discourses on AI privacy 
on Twitter (US) and Weibo (China), revealing divergent patterns shaped 
by cultural, political, and economic factors. 
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241290845 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241290845>

9) "'(Virtuous) Wives Don't Have Anything to Hide': Understanding 
Digital Privacy Perceptions and Behavior of Married Women in Rural 
India" by Debjani Chakraborty and Chhavi Garg examines how married women 
in rural India navigate digital privacy, balancing cultural norms of 
being "hidden" online while having "nothing to hide" from family. 
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251313665 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251313665>

10) "(Lack of) Patterns in Commitment: Data Protection in the Latin 
America and Caribbean Personal Data Protection Laws" by Elías 
Chavarría-Mora analyzes and maps the data protection laws across 25 
countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, discovering large 
variability that does not follow clear geographic patterns while also 
identifying key areas of convergence attributed to a Brussels effect. 
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251337206 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251337206>

11) "A Triple-Layered Comparative Approach to Understanding New Privacy 
Policy Practices of Digital Platforms and Users in China After 
Implementation of the PIPL" by Liming Liu and Yiming Chen analyzes how 
three platforms - WeChat, Taobao, and Douyin -  implement privacy 
policies after China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), 
revealing how state-dominant discourses legitimize authority over user data.
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301265 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301265>


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