The Interactions of Risk, Trust, and Permanence on Individuals’ Motivations for Sexting: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective
New media outlets have created increased fears about sexting and about managing privacy in mediated contexts. This study aims to understand how individuals’ motivations for sexting align with how they manage privacy online. A cross-sectional survey (n = 94) examines how individuals’ motivations for...
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International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR)
2022-10-01
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| description | New media outlets have created increased fears about sexting and about managing privacy in mediated contexts. This study aims to understand how individuals’ motivations for sexting align with how they manage privacy online. A cross-sectional survey (n = 94) examines how individuals’ motivations for sending sexts are influenced by trust, risk, and message permanence. We conducted a series of moderation analyses culminating with a mediated-moderation model where perceptions of message permanence moderate the relationship between approach motives and risk and where risk mediates the relationship between approach motives and sexting experiences. We show that privacy is a concern, but individuals use features of permanence to manage their privacy boundaries and reduce the risk associated with sexting. The findings contribute to communication privacy management (CPM; Petronio) in mediated contexts by showing that social media affordances serve as mechanisms for individuals to manage privacy boundaries and control the sharing of their information. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3f6ea4e99fc049bf8c810e52387ee7952023-08-07T18:17:44ZengInternational Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR)Journal of Popular Romance Studies2159-44732022-10-01111119The Interactions of Risk, Trust, and Permanence on Individuals’ Motivations for Sexting: A Communication Privacy Management PerspectiveJessica A. KahlowElizabeth M. JenkinsNew media outlets have created increased fears about sexting and about managing privacy in mediated contexts. This study aims to understand how individuals’ motivations for sexting align with how they manage privacy online. A cross-sectional survey (n = 94) examines how individuals’ motivations for sending sexts are influenced by trust, risk, and message permanence. We conducted a series of moderation analyses culminating with a mediated-moderation model where perceptions of message permanence moderate the relationship between approach motives and risk and where risk mediates the relationship between approach motives and sexting experiences. We show that privacy is a concern, but individuals use features of permanence to manage their privacy boundaries and reduce the risk associated with sexting. The findings contribute to communication privacy management (CPM; Petronio) in mediated contexts by showing that social media affordances serve as mechanisms for individuals to manage privacy boundaries and control the sharing of their information.https://www.jprstudies.org/2022/10/the-interactions-of-risk-trust-and-permanence-on-individuals-motivations-for-sexting-a-communication-privacy-management-perspective/affordancescommunication privacy management (cpm)conflictmotivationpermanencerisksextingtrust |
| spellingShingle | Jessica A. Kahlow Elizabeth M. Jenkins The Interactions of Risk, Trust, and Permanence on Individuals’ Motivations for Sexting: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective Journal of Popular Romance Studies affordances communication privacy management (cpm) conflict motivation permanence risk sexting trust |
| title | The Interactions of Risk, Trust, and Permanence on Individuals’ Motivations for Sexting: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective |
| title_full | The Interactions of Risk, Trust, and Permanence on Individuals’ Motivations for Sexting: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective |
| title_fullStr | The Interactions of Risk, Trust, and Permanence on Individuals’ Motivations for Sexting: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Interactions of Risk, Trust, and Permanence on Individuals’ Motivations for Sexting: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective |
| title_short | The Interactions of Risk, Trust, and Permanence on Individuals’ Motivations for Sexting: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective |
| title_sort | interactions of risk trust and permanence on individuals motivations for sexting a communication privacy management perspective |
| topic | affordances communication privacy management (cpm) conflict motivation permanence risk sexting trust |
| url | https://www.jprstudies.org/2022/10/the-interactions-of-risk-trust-and-permanence-on-individuals-motivations-for-sexting-a-communication-privacy-management-perspective/ |
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