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Benefits in Privacy Research: A Literature Review, Status Quo and Future Research Directions
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Jakob Wirth, Christian Maier, Sven Laumer, Caroline E. Oehlhorn, Tim WeitzelAuthors Info & Claims
Jakob Wirth, Christian Maier, Sven Laumer, Caroline E. Oehlhorn, Tim WeitzelAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 135 - 141
Abstract
Research in the stream of privacy considers benefits as an important and central concept. Benefits are the positive outcomes that individuals will experience when disclosing information. However, we see that only few papers theorize benefits in their research and thereby the operationalization and understanding of benefits is mixed, unstandardized and seems to follow no specific order. Based on that observation, we aim to provide a first step towards a standardized usage of benefits in privacy research studies, by summarizing existing benefits in privacy research and categorizing them. To do so, we base on the theory of perceived value. This theory uses five dimensions (emotional value, social value for myself, social value for others, monetary value as well as utility value), which we use to categorize different benefits. The results confirm our initial observations that indeed different constructs of benefits are used even in the same research context without justification. Implications among others refer to the recommendation to use the same term for the same construct and to consider all five dimensions of benefits in privacy research studies.
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