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SUMMARY:Social Media Seminar Series: Privacy on Social Network Sites
DESCRIPTION:
 A talk by Heather Richter Lipford, Associate Professor, 
 University of North Carolina, Charlotte.\n
 ABSTRACT: 
 The proliferation of personal 
 information being posted online has led to 
 well publicized privacy issues. Users are sharing 
 enormous amounts of personal information 
 and updates with many people and applications 
 on social network sites. Yet they are still 
 struggling to cope with maintaining appropriate 
 privacy in this new medium. In this talk, 
 I will present the results of several projects 
 aimed at understanding and addressing the 
 privacy needs of users on social network sites. 
 Our research demonstrates that users do have 
 privacy concerns and problems, and could benefit 
 from greater awareness and control over 
 the sharing of their information. We have designed 
 several new mechanisms and interfaces 
 to address these problems, aimed at maintaining 
 the social benefits of information sharing 
 while reducing the risks of participating on 
 social network sites.\n
 BIO: Dr. Heather Richter 
 Lipford is an Associate Professor at the 
 University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She 
 completed her Ph.D. from the College of Computing 
 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 
 Her research interests include Human-Computer 
 Interaction, usable privacy and security, 
 and social computing. Her current projects focus 
 on privacy management on social network 
 sites and mobile platforms, interactive support 
 for secure programming, and participation 
 in online communities. She is co-directing the 
 HCI Lab and is a member of the UNCC Cyber Defense 
 and Network Assurability Center, the Charlotte 
 Visualization Center and the UNCC Cognitive 
 Science Academy.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Valeta Wensloff\n
 Contact email: wensloff@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://tism.msu.edu/event/social-media-seminar-series-privacy-social-network-sites\n
LOCATION:Room 145, Communication Arts and Sciences Building 
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