Departmental Papers (ASC)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
4-2007
Publication Source
New Media & Society
Volume
9
Issue
2
Start Page
300
Last Page
318
DOI
10.1177/1461444807072219
Abstract
What does the US public believe about the credibility of institutional actors when it comes to protecting information privacy online? Drawing on perspectives of environmental risk, this article addresses the question through a nationally representative telephone survey of 1200 adults who go online at home. A key result is that a substantial percentage of internet users believes that major corporate or government institutions will both help them to protect information privacy and take that privacy away by disclosing information to other parties without permission. This finding and others raise questions about the dynamics of risk-perception and institutional trust on the web.
Copyright/Permission Statement
The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the journal New Media & Society, 19(2), 2007, © SAGE Publications, Inc. by SAGE Publications, Inc. at page: http://nms.sagepub.com/ on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/
Keywords
government, home, internet, marketing, media, online, privacy, risk
Recommended Citation
Turow, J., & Hennessy, M. (2007). Internet Privacy and Institutional Trust: Insights From a National Survey. New Media & Society, 9 (2), 300-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444807072219
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Date Posted: 25 June 2015
This document has been peer reviewed.