Social Network Privacy

Our project involving privacy in social media focuses on studying the usability and implications of the design choices that developers make while building these systems. We look at widely used social networking platforms, especially ones that allow instant messaging, and study user behavior and attitudes on these platforms, and their socio-economic implications.

Currently we are studying cultural influences on social media platforms. We are studying WhatsApp, which is a prominent mobile messaging application in non-western countries, to understand the involvement of cultural demographics in shaping discourse over these platforms. Some of our research questions are:

  1. To what degree does age affect privacy among users from marginalized populations?
  2. What are the different privacy preferences exhibited by people of various gender?
  3. To what extent does place of origin affect privacy preferences in WhatsApp, and how are they different from our knowledge of privacy attitudes in western populations?

Publications
Articles in journals or book chapters (2)
  1. Jayati Dev. Discussing Privacy and Surveillance on Twitter: A Case Study of COVID-19. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.06815, 2020.
    Keywords: Privacy, Computational Social Science, Social Network Privacy, human factors, surveillance, internet governance. [bibtex-entry]

  2. Jayati Dev, Sanchari Das, and Kaushik Srinivasan. Modularity is the Key: A New Approach to Social Media Privacy Policies. 2018.
    Keywords: Privacy, Social Network Privacy, human factors, internet governance. [bibtex-entry]

Conference publications (8)
  1. Dalyapraz Manatova, Dewesha Sharma, Sagar Samtani, and L. Jean Camp. Building and Testing a Network of Social Trust in an Underground Forum: Robust Connections and Overlapping Criminal Domains. In 2022 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), pages 1--12, November 2022.
    Note: ISSN: 2159-1245.
    Keywords: crime, Ecosystems, Entrepreneurship, Federated learning, Keyboards, Knowledge engineering, network resilience, Online banking, social network, Social networking (online), underground forums. [bibtex-entry]

  2. Jayati Dev and L Jean Camp. User Engagement with Chatbots: A Discursive Psychology Approach. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, pages 1--4, 2020.
    Keywords: AI, Social Network Privacy, human factors. [bibtex-entry]

  3. Jayati Dev, Pablo Moriano, and L Jean Camp. Lessons Learnt from Comparing WhatsApp Privacy Concerns Across Saudi and Indian Populations. In Sixteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (\{SOUPS\} 2020), pages 81--97, 2020.
    Keywords: Privacy, International, Social Network Privacy, human factors. [bibtex-entry]

  4. Sanchari Das, Jayati Dev, and Kaushik Srinivasan. Modularity is the Key: A New Approach to Social Media Privacy Policies. In ACM, 2018. MEXIHC 2018.
    Keywords: Privacy, Social Network Privacy, human factors, internet governance. [bibtex-entry]

  5. Jayati Dev, Sanchari Das, and L Jean Camp. Understanding privacy concerns of whatsapp users in India: poster. In Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium and Bootcamp on Hot Topics in the Science of Security, pages 28, 2018. ACM.
    Keywords: Privacy, Cultural, Social Network Privacy, human factors. [bibtex-entry]

  6. Jayati Dev, Sanchari Das, and L Jean Camp. Privacy Practices, Preferences, and Compunctions: WhatsApp Users in India. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2018), pages 135, 2018. Lulu. com.
    Keywords: Privacy, Cultural, Social Network Privacy, human factors. [bibtex-entry]

  7. Sanchari Das, Javon Goard, and Dakota Murray. How Celebrities Feed Tweeples with Personal and Promotional Tweets: Celebrity Twitter Use and Audience Engagement. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society, pages 30, 2017. ACM.
    Keywords: Social Network. [bibtex-entry]

  8. Vaibhav Garg, Kevin Benton, and L. Jean Camp. The Privacy Paradox: A Facebook Case Study. In 2014 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC), Arlington VA, 2014.
    Keywords: Mental Models, Human-Centered Security, Social Network Privacy, Aging. [bibtex-entry]