The role of privacy concerns in the sharing economy
Internet-mediated sharing is growing quickly. Millions of users around the world share personal services and possessions with others ‐ often complete strangers. Shared goods can amount to substantial financial and immaterial value. Despite this, little research has investigated
privacy in the sharing economy. To fill this gap, we examine the sharing–privacy nexus by exploring the privacy threats associated with Internet-mediated sharing. Given the popularity of sharing services, users seem quite willing to share goods and services despite the compounded informational
and physical privacy threats associated with such sharing. We develop and test a framework for analyzing the effect of privacy concerns on sharing that considers institutional and social privacy threats, trust and social-hedonic as well as monetary motives.
Keywords: Sharing; privacy; privacy calculus; privacy paradox; social media
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Department of Communication & Culture, Nordic Centre for Internet & Society, Oslo, Norway 2: Institute of Communication and Media Studies, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Publication date: 03 October 2018
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