Analyzing Privacy in Social Networks--An Interdisciplinary Approach

The rise of the social web has traditionally been accompanied by privacy concerns. Research on social web privacy has been conducted from various directions including law, social and computer sciences contributing to the body of literature. In this paper, we argue for an interdisciplinary approach to capture the multidimensional concept of privacy. For this purpose, we propose a three-layered framework to systematically analyze the privacy impact of various research directions. Subsequently, we conduct an interdisciplinary literature analysis, highlighting areas for improvement as well dependencies between different research directions.