CMAF 1010, Lab 52: Sexting Article Summary on Privacy Violations

This assignment is a summary of a research article focusing on sexting and its implications on privacy, particularly among young people. The paper defines sexting and highlights the increasing prevalence of sending and receiving explicit content through social media and online platforms. The research emphasizes the lack of privacy in online communication and examines the legal and psychological consequences, including potential issues of child pornography. While some researchers view sexting as a form of risky behavior, the study stresses the importance of avoiding shaming young people and instead acknowledging their entrance into adulthood and the use of sexting as a means of communication and expression. The article discusses the concept of online privacy and the concerns associated with the storage of data in the cloud, along with the importance of reviewing the policies and norms of social media platforms. The research also explores the connection between sexting and privacy violations, interpersonal trust, expectations, and intimacy. The study employed online surveys to investigate the privacy norms of young people, revealing that most participants expect privacy during sexting. The findings indicate that privacy violations are determined by contextual factors, with respondents generally unwilling to accept violations regardless of the content shared, particularly within intimate relationships. References to key research papers are included.

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Lara Al Kabbani, ID –
Instructor: Steve Jankowski
GA: Amanda Milanis
CMAF 1010, Lab 52
03/02/2020
SEXTING: AS A MEANS OF PRIVACY VIOLATION
The key idea of this research article is the impact of sexting among the young generation.
In this regard, the concept of sexting should be defined before steeping into the consequences.
Sexting refers to the process of sending and receiving unsolicited images, videos, and messages.
The young generation is very much into this procedure due the raise various social media
applications and online dating applications (Hasinoff & Shepherd, 2014, p. 8, 24). The research
states that there is zero percent privacy in the usage of the medium of internet to send or receive
sexually explicit pictures or messages. Many researchers consider this practice as a merely
foolish and unsafe way spreading continuously among the young generation.
The legal and psychological consequences of sexting often raises issues including child
pornography. The paper provides some examples of legal consequences of sexting. However,
there are researchers who do not consider sexting as a negative act (Albury, Hasinoff & Senft,
2017, pp. 527- 545). They consider sexting as a part of risky sexual behavior and attributes.
These researcher consider the consequences of sexting as equivalent to the outcomes of overdose
of drugs, casual sex, and even the unprotected sex.
The paper also mentioned that, irrespective of the offensive impact, the community must
avoid the act of shaming young people for the activities of consensual sexting. Instead of

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shaming, they must acknowledge the teenage group and their entrance phase into adulthood and
engaging sexting as a mode of interpersonal intimacy, expression, and communication. In this
regard, the expert mentioned the nature of norms and policies of online privacy.
Experts from the domain of digital media argues about considering the entire internet
thing as an automatically public zone. According to the study, the pictures or messages sent
through online mediums are generally stored in the cloud that has kept the privacy of users into a
questionable situation. The privacy concerns attached with networking services of social media
is considered as a subset of privacy of data. It involves the right of authorizing the subjective
privacy regarding keeping, re-purposing, endowment to third parties, and exhibiting information
concerning to an individual through the internet.
Researchers often state that during this 21st century information are as important as
currency (Wright & Xie, 2019, pp. 123- 140). Hence, giving away the access of the personal
information is not a wise decision of the educated society. All the social networking sites
provides a set of policy and norms before joining. Being an educated individual, a wise
suggestion is to go through all the policies and norms before joining the social networking sites
rather merely skimming the entire content to save time.
A safer way is not to share any image, text, or erotic posts on the reputed social media
platforms. However, majority of the population consider the matter of not sharing explicit
contents through digital media as unrealistic (Klettke, Hallford & Mellor, 2014, pp. 44-53). On
other terms, it is a way to allow the social networking reservoirs to preserve the contents posted
by any particular individual. Sexting is becoming a way of violation of privacy. This concept has
a close connection with interpersonal trust, expectation, privacy, and intimacy.

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This research work mentions that sexting is the recent digital incarnation of the ancient
incident of producing personal sexual media that may include love letters, Polaroid photos, and
diary entries (Moore et al., 2015, pp. 42-53). All the concepts can be subjected to violation,
which is not an expected activity. Hence, the research work seeks the answer of the question
about the privacy norms of young people at the time of sexting. The research was designed with
the method of online survey. The survey includes two scenarios of sexting with multiple ‘yes’
‘no’ questions. The questions were based on whether it should be considered of sharing one’s
personal images in certain circumstances as alright or not (Hasinoff & Shepherd, 2014, pp. 8,
24). The participants for this research work were divided into three groups consisted of
undergraduate students of Canadian University.
The findings of the research reflect that majority of the participants expect privacy at the
time of sexting to consider as social norm. The study also found privacy violation can be
determined by a range of particular contextual factors. Both the survey and participant groups are
unwilling to accept the violation of privacy irrespective of the nature of content. According to the
respondents sharing suggestive pictures in an intimate relationship is a mandatorily private thing
that should not be violated.

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References
Albury, K., Hasinoff, A. A., & Senft, T. (2017). From media abstinence to media production:
Sexting, young people and education. In The Palgrave handbook of sexuality
education (pp. 527-545). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Hasinoff, A. A., & Shepherd, T. (2014). Sexting in context: Privacy norms and
expectations. International Journal of Communication, 8, 24.
Klettke, B., Hallford, D. J., & Mellor, D. J. (2014). Sexting prevalence and correlates: A
systematic literature review. Clinical psychology review, 34(1), 44-53.
Moore, R. S., Moore, M. L., Shanahan, K. J., & Mack, B. (2015). Creepy marketing: Three
dimensions of perceived excessive online privacy violation. Marketing
Management, 25(1), 42-53.
Wright, S. A., & Xie, G. X. (2019). Perceived Privacy Violation: Exploring the Malleability of
Privacy Expectations. Journal of Business Ethics, 156(1), 123-140.