Location

Level 0, Open Space, Owen G. Glenn Building

Start Date

12-15-2014

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Privacy is a highly dynamic concept and individuals with distinct life experiences and knowledge can perceive it differently. Despite the advances made by past IS research, little is still known about the antecedents of Privacy Concerns Related to IT (PCIT), their formation, and the relationship between general PCIT and PCIT regarding specific technologies. In an effort to address these knowledge gaps, the present study adopts the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) as a theoretical lens to introduce three new constructs as key antecedents of general PCIT: privacy-related legal knowledge, privacy-related IT knowledge and general involvement with IT-related privacy. Based on ELM, the paper also proposes a two stage cognitive model that conceptualizes the relationship between general and technology-specific PCIT, and introduces a feature-based conceptualization of technology-specific PCIT.

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Dec 15th, 12:00 AM

Individuals’ IT-related Privacy Concerns: a Two-phase Cognitive Model

Level 0, Open Space, Owen G. Glenn Building

Privacy is a highly dynamic concept and individuals with distinct life experiences and knowledge can perceive it differently. Despite the advances made by past IS research, little is still known about the antecedents of Privacy Concerns Related to IT (PCIT), their formation, and the relationship between general PCIT and PCIT regarding specific technologies. In an effort to address these knowledge gaps, the present study adopts the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) as a theoretical lens to introduce three new constructs as key antecedents of general PCIT: privacy-related legal knowledge, privacy-related IT knowledge and general involvement with IT-related privacy. Based on ELM, the paper also proposes a two stage cognitive model that conceptualizes the relationship between general and technology-specific PCIT, and introduces a feature-based conceptualization of technology-specific PCIT.