The general aim of this study is to investigate how kids and adolescents conceptualize online privacy and the concern about their online privacy through a developmental perspective, while also trying to understand its impact on a safe online surfing environment. Three studies were conducted: 1) a systematic review, which was aimed to clarify the relative strengths and weaknesses of the literature about the construct of online privacy and online privacy concerns among kids and adolescents; 2) a qualitative study, aimed to understand how adolescents define – and consequently understand – the concept of online privacy; 3) a quantitative study, which aimed at addressing whether online surfing is associated with online privacy concerns and with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) differently across different ages during adolescence. Finally, the results of the three studies were analysed and discussed in light of the theory background. An analysis of the literature showed how children may have difficulties to fully understand risks in unusual contexts, and that they can have difficulties in responding to situations when they struggled to recognise or understand fully the risks involved. The results of the three studies are discussed, underlining how adolescents understand their online privacy, if they are concerned about their data online, how we should help them manage better their privacy online, and how we should design services, applications and devices to help kids understand better the implication of the Internet on their ‘onlife’ (Floridi, 2015).
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3440-2628
Titolo del capitolo
Privacy online tra bambini e adolescenti: concezione, preoccupazione e tutela
Autori
Giovanni Vespoli
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0081-3.13
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Esercizi di ricerca
Sottotitolo del libro
Dottorato e politiche per la formazione
Curatori
Vanna Boffo, Fabio Togni
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
278
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0081-3
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0094-3
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0081-3
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0082-0
Collana
Studies on Adult Learning and Education
ISSN della collana
2704-596X
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5781