CHRISTIAN FUCHS - ICT&S - Universität Salzburg

Christian Fuchs: Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Societycritique towards surveillance) (N=613). This indicates a rather critical stance of thestudents in our sample towards surveillance as problem. The exact distribution is shownin figure 16. 67.4% of the respondents are critical or rather critical of surveillance(N=613).Critique of Surveillance 1: If you have nothing illegal to hide, then you need not be afraidof surveillance.Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulativePercentValidCompletely disagree 218 32,3 35,6 35,6Disagree 138 20,5 22,5 58,1Disagree somewhat 84 12,5 13,7 71,8Agree somewhat 84 12,5 13,7 85,5Agree 61 9,1 10,0 95,4Strongly agree 28 4,2 4,6 100,0Total 613 90,9 100,0Missing System 61 9,1Total 674 100,0Table 7. Critical standpoints towards surveillance #1Critique of Surveillance 2: I trust that social networking platforms such as studiVZ,MySpace, or Facebook deal in a responsible way with my data.Frequency Percent Valid PercentCumulativePercentValidCompletely disagree 74 11,0 12,1 12,1Disagree 137 20,3 22,3 34,4Disagree somewhat 114 16,9 18,6 53,0Agree somewhat 132 19,6 21,5 74,6Agree 112 16,6 18,3 92,8Strongly agree 44 6,5 7,2 100,0Total 613 90,9 100,0Missing System 61 9,1Total 674 100,0Table 8. Critical standpoints towards surveillance #261