Privacy as a plural, context-dependent concept operationalized as restriction of access to personal information¶

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 for) · 1 study (1 review), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description¶

The article frames privacy as a concept lacking universal definition, quoting Solove that "privacy is not reducible to a singular essence; it is a plurality of different things." Definitions vary by time period, cultural norms, physical location, and field of study. For its case study, the article adopts the operational definition of privacy as "the restriction of access to an individual's personal information," and draws on Nissenbaum's contextual and Solove's bottom-up approaches.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Operational definitions must be chosen for the specific study context given the absence of a universal definition

Constraints¶

• The operational definition was adopted specifically for this case study of a student success information system

Target Learners¶

• higher education administrators and researchers studying learning analytics privacy

Target Learning Objectives¶

• conceptualizing privacy for institutional learning analytics policy and practice

Claims¶

• In a scoping review of 59 privacy-focused LA articles, 74% addressed privacy without defining or conceptualizing it [+W]

Related Theories¶

• Smith et al.'s value-based and cognate-based categorization of privacy definitions as an analytical lens for LA

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Mary Francis, Mejai Bola Mike Avoseh, Karen Card, Lisa Newland and Kevin Streff. (2023). Student Privacy and Learning Analytics: Investigating the Application of Privacy Within a Student Success Information System in Higher Education. Journal of Learning Analytics 10(3). https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2023.7975