Whose Information Should Be Shared With Whom? Parents’ Awareness Of Children’s Digital Privacy In Turkey
Whose Information Should Be Shared With Whom? Parents’ Awareness Of Children’s Digital Privacy In Turkey

Summary/Abstract: Today, parents make use of social media accounts for many different purposes, such as obtaining information, giving advice, receiving support, and exchanging ideas with other parents. In parallelwith the use of social media, according to their parenting roles, individuals frequently sharevarious content related to both their own daily practices and the development processes oftheir children. The fact that most of the content shared is about children raises the question ofdigital privacy in this context. Based on this focus, this research aims to determine the prioritiesattached by the parents when they share content about children on their social media accounts,and what kind of measures they take in sharing this content to protect the digital privacy oftheir children. Therefore, a questionnaire based quantitative field study was carried out withinthe scope of this research. As a result of the study, it was found that parents primarily prefersharing special occasions with their children, family photographs and photographs of theirchildren at early ages; if the child is at a later age, they tend to consult him/her before sharingthe content, but they do not tend to pay enough attention to ensuring

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