Ebooks and cross generational perceived privacy issues

Zimmer, Michael; Thiele, Jennifer; Kapusniak, Renee

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Description

Title

Ebooks and cross generational perceived privacy issues

Author(s)

• Zimmer, Michael
• Thiele, Jennifer
• Kapusniak, Renee

Issue Date

2013-02

Keyword(s)

• electronic books
• privacy
• older people
• young adults
• libraries
• information behavior
• information policy
• information retrieval

Abstract

Privacy issues are not well understood by the general user. A common perception is that the younger computer user is less informed or concerned with privacy issues than the older user. However, recent studies have been finding that this is not necessarily the case. The researchers in this study would like to examine these privacy perceptions cross-generation when it comes to e-Book reading histories, utilization of commercial bookstore websites as well as library websites. A small pilot case study will interview e-Book users of different age groups to determine how they view privacy when purchasing e-books or checking them out from the library.

Publisher

iSchools

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42037

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/13458

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Copyright © 2013 is held by the authors. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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