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Risk Perception In Online Communities, Jason R. Couraud
Risk Perception In Online Communities, Jason R. Couraud
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Online communities have become a part of everyday life for many people. The members of the communities use them to keep in touch with family and friends, do business, look for jobs, play games, and more, both savory and unsavory. The ease of sharing personal information comes with the subsequent risk of having that information exposed publically or even stolen. The purpose of this study was to explore how much awareness of the risks affects a person’s decision to post personal information to an online community.
Chapter I introduces the concepts and issues that will be investigated by this paper. …