##esizing Three Theories To Explain User Information Security Behavior In Virtual Communities

In his paper, Fried writes that trust is bought through “moral capital” (Fried 484). This moral capital is bought by revealing information that might otherwise be kept private to a friend, loved one, or individual whose trust the informer would like to gain. Moral capital is the trust that an individual will treat another with morality meaning, according to Fried, that they will“[respect] the basic rights of the other” (Fried 479). Fried also states that, “There can be no trust where there is no possibility of error,” suggesting that without privacy there can be no trust as privacy creates the risk of confidential information being disclosed by the receiver of said information (Fried 486). The idea that privacy creates trust has only become more evident with the rise of the internet. In their paper, “Young people online and the social value of privacy,” George Mason University professor Priscilla Regan and University of Ottawa professor Valerie Steeves explore how young people’s understanding and value of privacy has been shaped by the internet. The two found that while young people understand that information posted on the internet can be viewed by family members and the public, they trust that others will follow the unwritten social rules of the internet–essentially that they will act with morality–and respect their privacy by not looking at posts not directed at them (Regan and Steeves 302). This example shows that despite the interconnectedness

The study was created from students, faculty, and staff from a Midwestern university with about 10,000 students registered on campus. The team assigned to conduct the research randomly selected courses that were held on campus and were scheduled to meet on two consecutive days during the semester of Spring 2013. Kyle et al., (2017). The instructors were emailed and asked for consent to run the survey to their class on a specific date. The research team ended up receiving access to forty different courses. Over the two chosen consecutive days, the research team administered the survey to the students in each of the classes. The students were let known that participation for this study was voluntary and if they wished to decline

The population is undergraduate students of UM and we eliminated the unsuitable sample based on the information of questionnaires (exclude the outliers, blank questionnaire, context is contradictory and so on). Then we selected 30 questionnaires per college year which year 1 to year 4 (30*4=120) from all the completed questionnaires. We used convenience sampling method to distribute the online questionnaires openly. And we received the completed questionnaires online which are from google form.

The researcher will assume that the respondents will answer all survey questions and that the questions will be answered honestly. The researcher will assure the respondents that the survey will be handled anonymously and that it will be confidential.

There were 6,030 participants each participant attended New England University. The participants ranging ages 18-24 there were mostly women representing across the university not too many men where represented across the university. The data was collected in February 2012 undergraduate students were notified through an email asking to participate in a current online study. The undergraduate students were told that they could have a chance at winning a $100 amazon gift card. Students were notified that the research was being handled by researchers at the University of New Hampshire as well as their university each participant had to sign a consent form. Each participant had a chance to win a $100 gift card by entering a raffle ticket and

Acquisti and Gross point out that the unprecedented growth of online social networks including but not limited to Facebook and MySpace has brought with itself serious security and privacy concerns. In this particular study, the authors found out that privacy issues do not discourage individuals from being members of the network. Further, the authors also found out that even individuals who happen to be rather concerned about their privacy reveal a great deal of their personal information after joining the network. This study is highly relevant to my research as it clearly demonstrates that individuals do not take privacy issues seriously on joining Facebook. As the authors point out, the study in this case secured its support from the "CMU Berkman Faculty Development Fund, CMU CyLab and the Data Privacy Laboratory." Thus in addition to being relevant, the study can also be regarded credible.

Fifteen Fordham students of a Research Methods course were distributed a questionnaire. The students in the lab course by voluntary participated and signed an informed consent.

An example of the survey is contained in the Appendix. The survey asks questions that can

Upon entering the study students signed in and were handed an informed consent. Participants were randomly assigned to a condition by picking a slip of paper from alternating cups that contained a number one through eight. Students then took a seat an individual computers and informed consents were reviewed, signed and collected by a research assistant. Participants were provided with headphones by the research assistants if they did not bring their own. Participants then began the survey. They were first asked to report their age in years. If they responded with an age less than 18 years they were thanked for their time and no further questions were asked. Students 18 years and older proceeded with the survey. They were then

The study was conducted in Austria with students from the University of Graz. It was an online survey. There were originally 543

The Likert Scale and Questionnaire Type Survey that will be used to assess the participants’ cultural, socioeconomic status, cultural and

Many users are subject of Security and Privacy on the Internet issue. The term "information" now is more used when defining a special product or article of trade which could be bought, sold, exchanged, etc. Often the price of information is higher many times than the cost of the very computers and technologies where it is functioning. Naturally it raises the need of protecting information from unauthorized access, theft, destruction, and other crimes. However, many users do not realize that they risk their security and privacy online.

The concern about privacy on the Internet is increasingly becoming an issue of international dispute. ?Citizens are becoming concerned that the most intimate details of their daily lives are being monitored, searched and recorded.? (www.britannica.com) 81% of Net users are concerned about threats to their privacy while online. The greatest threat to privacy comes from the construction of e-commerce alone, and not from state agents. E-commerce is structured on the copy and trade of intimate personal information and therefore, a threat to privacy on the Internet.

The data and knowledge they relied on were not as strong to aid with the correlation between trust and risk of individuals’ behavior with social media platforms. Another limitation was “the limited number of studies of risk on individual behavior towards SMPs” (pg.37), this limitation affected the ability to conclude moderating effects relating to the main topic of focus. This later resulted with a gap in filling in this information which may influence the final research results, as well as inaccuracy with determining possible moderating effect, “the two platforms types including social networking sites and virtual communities could be used as moderators” (pg. 37).

As a marketing consultant, Shah’s Surveytastic Survey should align the same freemium model with a focus in growing the business and attempting to reach new customers. In fact, simplicity and easy to use survey platform is what they should target for to engage more individuals and get their feedback that can be used to collect meaningful data. To do that, Shah’s Surveytastic Survey could allow everyone who is part of the university (students or faculty) to sign up, create and send their surveys with basic features like having 10 questions, 100 responses and email support for free. Since universities tend to have professors students and faculty members from different demographics, Surveytastic Survey should include different language options