Information Privacy Research

A compilation of our research on social media data use, reuse & misuse, on privacy & trust and on the privacy paradox.

Publications

Journal Papers

  1. Gruzd, A. & Hernández-García, Á. (2022). A Balancing Act: How Risk Mitigation Strategies Employed by Users Explain the Privacy Paradox on Social Media, Behaviour & Information Technology, 43(1), 21-39. DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2022.2152366
  2. Gruzd, A., McNeish, J., Halevi, L.D. & and Phillips, M. (2021). Seeing Self in Data: The Effect of a Privacy Literacy Intervention on Facebook Users’ Behaviour. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3946376
  3. Jacobson, J. & Gruzd, A. (2020). Cybervetting job applicants on social media: the new normal? Ethics and Information Technology, 22, 175–195. DOI: 10.1007/s10676-020-09526-2
  4. Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J. & Dubois, E. (2020). Cybervetting and the Public Life of Social Media Data. Social Media + Society, 6(2). DOI: 10.1177/2056305120915618
  5. Jacobson, J., Gruzd, A. & Hernandez-Garcia, A. (2019). Social Media Marketing: Who is watching the watchers? Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 53. DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2019.03.001
  6. Gruzd, A. & Hernández-García, Á. (2018). Privacy Concerns and Self-Disclosure in Private and Public Uses of Social Media. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 21(7), 418–428. DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2017.0709
  7. Dubois, E., Gruzd, A. & Jacobson, J. (2018). Journalists’ Use of Social Media to Infer Public Opinion: The Citizens’ Perspective. Social Science Computer Review, 38(1), 57–74. DOI:10.1177/0894439318791527

Conference Papers

Conference Papers in Proceedings

  1. Gruzd, A., Abul-Fottouh, D. & Mashatan, A. (2020). Who is Influencing the #GDPR Discussion on Twitter: Implications for Public Relations. Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Maui, HI, USA. DOI: 10.24251/HICSS.2020.319
  2. Jacobson, J. & Gruzd, A. (2018). Employers’ Use of Young People’s Social Media: Extending Stakeholder Theory to Social Media Data. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018. Chicago, IL, USA. DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2018.18217
  3. Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J. & Dubois, E. (2017, Aug. 10-12). You’re Hired: Examining Acceptance of Social Media Screening of Job Applicants. Proceedings of the 23rd Americas Conference on Information Systems. Boston, MA, USA. https://doi.org/10.32920/ryerson.14636181.v1 
  4. Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J. & Dubois, E. (2017, May 31-June 2). Information Visualizations as a Tool to Study Users’ Social Media Privacy Concerns. Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) Conference. Toronto, ON, Canada. DOI:10.29173/cais1016

Conference Papers

  1. Gruzd, A., Mai, P. & Saiphoo, A. (2022, Sept. 29-30). Use and Users of Blockchain-based Social Media Platforms.Trust & Safety Research Conference. Stanford, CA, USA.
  2. Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Burkell, J., McNeish, J., Quan-Haase, A. (2018, Oct. 11) Social Media Users’ Privacy Expectations and the Ethics of Using Their Data by Third Parties. The 2018 Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Montreal, QC, Canada. https://aoir.org/aoir2018/