With the introduction of new information communication technologies, employers are increasingly engaging in social media screening, also known as cybervetting, as part of their hiring process. Our research, using an online survey with 482 participants, investigates young people’s concerns with their publicly available social media data being used in the context of job hiring. Grounded in stakeholder theory, we analyze the relationship between young people’s concerns with social media screening and their gender, job seeking status, privacy concerns, and social media use. We find that young people are generally not comfortable with social media screening. A key finding of this research is that concern for privacy for public information on social media cannot be fully explained by some “traditional” variables in privacy research. The research extends stakeholder theory to identify how social media data ethics should be inextricably linked to organizational practices. The findings have theoretical implications for a rich conceptualization of stakeholders in an age of social media and practical implications for organizations engaging in cybervetting.

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社交媒体上的网络审查求职者：新常态？

随着新信息通信技术的引入，雇主在招聘过程中越来越多地参与社交媒体筛选，也称为网络审查。我们的研究使用了482位参与者进行的在线调查，调查了年轻人在招聘工作中使用的公共社交媒体数据所引起的关注。基于利益相关者理论，我们分析了年轻人对社交媒体筛选的关注与他们的性别，求职状态，隐私关注和社交媒体使用之间的关系。我们发现年轻人通常对社交媒体筛选不满意。这项研究的关键发现是，对于社交媒体上公共信息的隐私问题，无法通过隐私研究中的某些“传统”变量来充分解释。该研究扩展了利益相关者理论，以确定社交媒体数据伦理应如何与组织实践密不可分地联系在一起。这些发现对社交媒体时代的利益相关者进行丰富的概念化具有理论意义，并且对从事网络审查的组织具有实际意义。