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Privacy Within Photo-Sharing and Gaming Applications: Motivation and Opportunity and the Decision to Download

Hopkins, Ashley R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1556821782704244

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Journalism (Communication).
This study worked to determine the amount of attention users of mobile application devices dedicate to opt-in privacy policies. As the average user is often faced with a variety of motivations and distractions when determining whether to download an application, this study created an experimental setting in which certain participants were told that they would have to justify their decision to download with a sample of their peers upon reviewing typical opt-in privacy policies, while others faced a time restraint when making a decision to download. Based on the academic literature, this study hypothesized that 1) When faced with a time restraint, participants would be less likely to download an application than those who did not face a time restraint; 2) Participants who were asked to justify the basis of their decision would be less likely to download an application than those who were not asked to justify their decision; 3) Participants who faced a time restraint and who were not asked to consider the basis of their decisions prior to download would be more likely to download an application than those in other experimental conditions; 4) Participants who did not face a time restraint and who were asked to consider the basis of their decision prior to download would be less likely to download an application than those in other experimental conditions; and 5) Participants who scored higher on a self-efficacy scale would be more likely to download applications than those who scored lower. It also questioned how the various factors outlined in this study (motivation, opportunity, and self-efficacy) worked together to affect the decision-making process. The results of this study help to show that while motivation and opportunity has often been shown to play a role in decision-making processes, age, experience, and self- efficacy may play a larger part in the access mobile application users are willing to provide to third-party developers than was previously considered. While individuals boast the importance of protecting their privacy online, the more one interacts with the technology the less risk they come to expect when deciding whether or not to accept permissions and download a mobile application.
Hans Meyer, Dr. (Advisor)
105 p.
Journalism
mobile applications; apps; smartphone; social media; privacy; data; datamining; data mine; Android; Apple; privacy permissions; terms and conditions; motivation; opportunity; decision-making; gaming; photo-sharing; Facebook; MODE model

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  • Hopkins, A. R. (2019). Privacy Within Photo-Sharing and Gaming Applications: Motivation and Opportunity and the Decision to Download [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1556821782704244

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hopkins, Ashley. Privacy Within Photo-Sharing and Gaming Applications: Motivation and Opportunity and the Decision to Download. 2019. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1556821782704244.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hopkins, Ashley. "Privacy Within Photo-Sharing and Gaming Applications: Motivation and Opportunity and the Decision to Download." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1556821782704244

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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