Privacy and Self-Disclosure in the Age of Information

Abstract

This chapter questions whether the theories discussed in the previous chapters hold up to the novel dynamics described in Chap. 2. It reviews the recent literature on online privacy and self-disclosure in order to identify potential modifications or extensions. It is shown that recent work did not explicitly differentiate between horizontal privacy and vertical privacy, often neglected the networked nature of online privacy and the corresponding role of interpersonal trust, and did not explicitly investigate the multimodal nature of privacy regulation behaviors.