Dima Epstein

We sincerely hope these contributions encourage further engagement with comparative privacy research and meaningful conversations about privacy in our increasingly interconnected world.

Our deepest gratitude to all the authors for their rigorous work, important insights, and patience & effort.

11. In "A Triple-Layered Comparative Approach" ‪@liming1026.bsky.social‬ & Yiming Chen analyze how WeChat, Taobao, and Douyin, implement privacy policies after China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). doi.org/10.1177/2056...

10. In "(Lack of) Patterns in Commitment" @tarnov.bsky.social analyzes and maps the data protection laws across 25 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, discovering large variability that does not follow clear geographic patterns. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

9. In "'(Virtuous) Wives Don't Have Anything to Hide'" Debjani Chakraborty & Chhavi Garg examine how married women in rural India navigate digital privacy, balancing cultural norms of being "hidden" online while having "nothing to hide" from family. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

8. In "AI Privacy in Context" Renwen Zhang, Han Li, Anfan Chen, Zihan Liu, and Yi-Chieh Lee compare public and institutional discourses on AI privacy on Twitter (US) and Weibo (China), revealing divergent patterns shaped by cultural, political, and economic factors. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

7. In "Turn It on! Turn It on?" Leyla Dogruel et al. study how students and teachers in Germany and Israel negotiated privacy and visibility during the shift to emergency remote teaching in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

6. In "Conversation-Related Advertising and Electronic Eavesdropping" @segijn.bsky.social et al. examine the belief that mobile devices eavesdrop on offline conversations across three countries with different regulatory contexts and surveillance histories. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

5. In "Understanding the Motivations of Young Adults" Delia Cristina Balaban, Maria Mustăţea, and Valeriu Frunzaru explore motivations behind young adults' privacy protection behaviors when configuring smartphone apps in Germany and Romania. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

4. In "Online Privacy, Young People, & Datafication" Rys Farthing and colleagues explore how young people’s awareness of datafication shape their understandings of online privacy in 4 countries from global south and north. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

3. In "It's Fine If Others Do It Too" @cphoffmann.bsky.social and ‪‪@shelleyboulianne.bsky.social‬ nvestigate the relationship between privacy concerns, social influence, and online political expression on Facebook across five Western democracies. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

2. In "Attitudes on Data Use for Public Benefit" Frederic Gerdon compares attitudes on the use of data for public benefit across Germany, Spain, and the UK in a longitudinal survey experiment. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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1. In the editorial we introduce the special issue and the Comparative Privacy Research Framework (CPRF) as a conceptual foundation for context-sensitive #privacy research.

Editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

CPRF: doi.org/10.1080/0197...

The issue hosts 10 contributions and an editorial. Articles explore varied #privacy perceptions, behaviors, & regulations. They draw on theories like contextual integrity & privacy calculus, offering insights into complex relationships between privacy concerns & socio-political/tech forces.

New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society!

journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)

Judgitbu the abstract, this seems like an interesting read..

We find techies to be liberal on cultural issues, such as same-sex marriage and cosmopolitanism, conservative on income redistribution, and inconsistent on attitudes towards economic regulation. They also show surprisingly high institutional trust. Developers emerge as a politically distinct group.

We use large-scale cross-national survey data (ESS & ISSP) to explore the differences both within the tech workforce and between it and other occupational elites. We also test the generalizability of previous US-based results about tech professionals in a more geographically diverse sample.

On politics and policy preferences of tech workers: In a preprint of a study lead by Gilad Be'ery and co-authored with @raanan-sk.bsky.social we show that, despite some similarities, techies do not have a universal policy agenda; developers are particularly distinct.

osf.io/preprints/os...

What Makes A Democracy A Democracy? | TechPolicy.Press Tech elites' political clout shows how free elections can still favor the policy preferences of a powerful few, writes Surya Gowda.

The immense political influence possessed by the tech elite perfectly demonstrates how free and fair elections may coexist with and even foster a political system that privileges the policy preferences of a select few, writes Surya Gowda.

How Grok Learned to Be a Nazi The chatbot’s sudden turn to antisemitism and Hitler fandom came from the data — and, maybe, from the top.

Grok’s “sudden ideological reorientation” underscores that the “anodyne political character” of other chatbots is also a construction, @jwherrman.bsky.social writes. It's a reminder that all chatbots are the product of "people deciding what they should and shouldn’t say.” nymag.com/intelligence...

If the power grid around St. Petersburg and Moscow went down for a while, we imagine many "Western" social media accounts would suddenly go quiet, too.

2025 Social Media Lab - Computational Social Science Summer School - Online [July 14-16, 2025 via Zoom] - Social Media Lab Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info info@socialmedialab.caBsky @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...

Our free Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School is open to graduate students, researchers, journalists, and analysts interested in CSS, textual, and network analysis of social media data — no prior experience is needed! socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...

Working on platform governance?

Join for PlatGovNet 2025
Free online conference Dec 1-2
Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) due Sep 2

Amazing community, opportunity to share work, get feedback, meet others working in this area.

Glad to be part of organizing it
Details: platgov.net/conferences/...

Maybe they can give us a tour :)

The Illiberal Public Sphere This book uncovers the media's role in global illiberalism through cutting-edge analysis of recent developments in Eastern Europe.

🎉 Excited to share the APSA Technology & Politics Section Award winners! 🏆

📚 Best Book

The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies
by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access!

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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This is no longer a contest over AI models alone, but over standards, adoption, and the architecture of global digital ecosystems. buff.ly/WrOKnN9

Dimensions of Digital Privacy – A Conversation with Dmitry Epstein, Kelly Quinn and Philipp Masur The SIP · Episode

@masurphil.bsky.social, Kelly Quinn, and I discussed this paper and other comparative privacy work in a podcast of the HUJI Smart Family Institute: open.spotify.com/episode/49t9...

Trump fires Copyright Office director after report raises questions about AI training | TechCrunch President Donald Trump has fired Shira Perlmutter, who leads the U.S. Copyright Office. The firing was reported by CBS News and Politico, and seemingly

Trump fires Copyright Office director after report raises questions about AI training

#ICA25 ICA CAT panel: Building Bridges in Privacy Research: Comparative Perspectives and Collaborative Insights - 14-Jun-25, 10:30 AM in Mineral G (Regency 3).

#ICA25 ICA CAT panel: Building Bridges in Privacy Research: Comparative Perspectives and Collaborative Insights - 14-Jun-25, 10:30 AM in Mineral G (Regency 3).