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Returning to the Digital World: Digital Technology Use and Privacy Management of Women Transitioning from Incarceration
dc.contributor.author | Hyunjin, Seo | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-02T18:23:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-07-02T18:23:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Seo, H., Britton, H., Ramaswamy, M., Altschwager, D., Blomberg, M., Aromona, O., Schuster, B., Booton, E., Ault, M., & Wickliffe, J. (2022). Returning to the digital world: Digital technology use and privacy management of women transitioning from incarceration. New Media & Society, 24(3). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820966993 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/32793 | |
dc.description.abstract | Based on interviews with 75 women transitioning from incarceration, our research identifies technology access and skills barriers facing this population and their underlying concerns and motivations in navigating privacy online. Our results suggest precarious housing and financial situations, concerns about ex-partners, mental health issues, and lack of self-efficacy pose challenges for their access to and use of digital technologies and influence their online privacy perspectives. Many participants reported relying primarily on cellphones for various tasks including job applications. Closing public places including libraries amid the COVID-19 pandemic put them at an even greater disadvantage, as many of them depend on computers or Wi-Fi available in those places. Nothing-to-lose attitudes were salient among this group resulting in many not taking precautionary measures online or choosing to go offline. Our research highlights the importance of building academic-community partnerships to provide technology and privacy education tailored for this population’s particular needs and desires. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (Grant Number: 1907002) | en_US |
dc.publisher | New Media and Society | en_US |
dc.subject | Marginalized women | en_US |
dc.subject | Technology | |
dc.subject | Incarceration | |
dc.subject | Online privacy | |
dc.subject | COVID-19 pandemic | |
dc.title | Returning to the Digital World: Digital Technology Use and Privacy Management of Women Transitioning from Incarceration | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Seo, Hyunjin | |
kusw.kudepartment | School of Journalism and Mass Communications | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/1461444820966993 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |