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Investigating the Differences in Privacy News Based on Grounded Theory

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Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics (AHFE 2020)

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The current study explores how privacy is covered in the news in two different cultural contexts, by summarizing both an issue framework and a subject diagram utilizing privacy dialogues in the news coverages. Data was collected through Google and Baidu, most commonly used engines in the US and China through 2016 to 2019. Adopting a qualitative method based on the Grounded Theory, 400 news samples were coded following theoretical sampling procedure and reached a theoretical saturation. Our analyses yielded three main topics namely technology, data collection and use, and privacy law making and eight subtopics in the US and China that were framed differently in distrust aspect, and significantly different in reporting perspectives. We also found that subjects covered in privacy news were mainly related to legal topics. And a common ground was identified in the data protecting aspect for both users and data collectors.

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  1. School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

    Qingxiao Zheng & Masooda Bashir

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  1. Industrial Engineering and Management System, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Waldemar Karwowski

  2. Department IELM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Ravindra S. Goonetilleke

  3. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Shuping Xiong

  4. Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

    Richard H. M. Goossens

  5. Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

    Atsuo Murata

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Zheng, Q., Bashir, M. (2020). Investigating the Differences in Privacy News Based on Grounded Theory. In: Karwowski, W., Goonetilleke, R., Xiong, S., Goossens, R., Murata, A. (eds) Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1215. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51549-2_70

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