Viral Privacy: Contextual Integrity as a Lens to Understand Content Creators' Privacy Perceptions and Needs After Sudden Attention

Abstract

When designing multi-stakeholder privacy systems, it is important to consider how different groups of social media users have different goals and requirements for privacy. Additionally, we must acknowledge that it is important to keep in mind that even a single creator's needs can change as their online visibility and presence shifts, and that robust multi-stakeholder privacy systems should account for these shifts. Using the framework of contextual integrity, we explain a theoretical basis for how to evaluate the potential changing privacy needs of users as their profiles undergo a sudden rise in online attention, and ongoing projects to understand these potential shifts in perspectives.