Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings from the Digital Privacy Story Completion Project, which investigated Australian participants' understandings of and responses to digital privacy scenarios using a novel method and theoretical approach.

Design/methodology/approach

The story completion method was brought together with De Certeau's concept of tactics and more-than-human theoretical perspectives. Participants were presented with four story stems on an online platform. Each story stem introduced a fictional character confronted with a digital privacy dilemma. Participants were asked to complete the stories by typing in open text boxes, responding to the prompts “How does the character feel? What does she/he do? What happens next?”. A total of 29 participants completed the stories, resulting in a corpus of 116 narratives for a theory-driven thematic analysis.

Findings

The stories vividly demonstrate the ways in which tactics are entangled with relational connections and affective intensities. They highlight the micropolitical dimensions of human–nonhuman affordances when people are responding to third-party use of their personal information. The stories identified the tactics used and boundaries that are drawn in people's sense-making concerning how they define appropriate and inappropriate use of their data.

Originality/value

This paper demonstrates the value and insights of creatively attending to personal data privacy issues in ways that decentre the autonomous tactical and agential individual and instead consider the more-than-human relationality of privacy.

Peer review

The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-05-2020-0174

中文翻译：

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数字隐私叙事中的策略，影响和代理：故事完成研究

目的

本文的目的是报告“数字隐私故事完成项目”的发现，该项目使用新颖的方法和理论方法调查了澳大利亚参与者对数字隐私场景的理解和响应。

设计/方法/方法

故事完成方法与De Certeau的战术概念和非人性的理论视角结合在一起。在在线平台上向参与者展示了四个故事梗。每个故事的梗概都引入了一个虚构的人物，面临着数字隐私困境。要求参与者通过在打开的文本框中键入内容来完成故事，并根据提示“角色感觉如何？他/他做什么？接下来发生什么？”。共有29位参与者完成了故事，从而形成了116种叙述的语料库，用于理论驱动的主题分析。

发现

这些故事生动地展示了策略与关系联系和情感强度的纠缠方式。它们强调了当人们响应第三方对个人信息的使用时，人类与非人类能力的微观政治层面。这些故事确定了人们在如何定义适当和不适当使用数据方面所运用的策略和界限。

创意/价值

本文展示了以创造性的方式关注个人数据隐私问题的价值和见解，这些方法分散了自主的战术和特工人员的注意力，而不是考虑人与人之间的隐私关系。

同行评审

本文的同行评审历史记录可在以下网址获得：https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-05-2020-0174