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The Privacy Paradox by Proxy: Considering Predictors of Sharenting
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Abstract Despite being worried that children may compromise their privacy by disclosing too much personal data online, many parents paradoxically share pictures and information about their children themselves, a practice called sharenting. In this article we utilise data from the EU Kids Online survey to inv... view more
Despite being worried that children may compromise their privacy by disclosing too much personal data online, many parents paradoxically share pictures and information about their children themselves, a practice called sharenting. In this article we utilise data from the EU Kids Online survey to investigate this paradox. We examine both how individual characteristics such as demographics and digital skills, and relational factors, including parental mediation styles, concerns about children’s privacy, and communication between parents and children influence sharenting practices. Counter-intuitively, our findings show that parents with higher levels of digital skills are more likely to engage in sharenting. Furthermore, parents who actively mediate their children’s use of the internet and are more concerned about the privacy of their children, are also more likely to engage in sharenting. At the same time, and further emphasising the complexities of this relational practice, many parents do not ask for their children’s consent in advance of sharing information about them. Overall, parents seem to consider the social benefits of sharenting to outweigh the potential risks both for themselves and for their children. Given the paradoxical complexities of sharenting practices, we propose further research is required to distinguish between different kinds of sharenting and their potential implications for children and young people’s right to privacy.... view less
Keywords
EU; social media; privacy; data; Internet; data protection; parents; child
Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Sociology of the Youth, Sociology of Childhood
Free Keywords
Europe; children online; children’s digital rights; parental mediation; privacy paradox; sharenting
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 371-383
Journal
Media and Communication, 10 (2022) 1
Issue topic
Digital Child- and Adulthood: Risks, Opportunities, and Challenges
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed