Overview
Networked privacy has been a focus of CSCW research, but the highly contextual nature of privacy presents complex challenges that researchers must navigate. For instance, as technologies evolve, new forms of and mechanisms causing privacy violations emerge. This is further complicated by the fact that individual and population-level differences can drastically alter perceptions and experiences navigating privacy online. Furthermore, attempts to capture such contextually relevant factors has led to a proliferation of privacy frameworks, all with different underlying scopes and assumptions, making it difficult to compare research across contexts. In sum, privacy research is time-consuming, often focused on a specific context with a specific population, making it difficult for scholars to study quickly shifting technologies and the lived experiences of privacy violations, let alone provide solutions. This workshop will bring together the research community so that we can identify and align on the grand challenges in privacy research and prioritize a future research agenda for our community.
Workshop Themes
We specifically focus on the following workshop themes:
Theme 1 - Improving Theories and Methods: How can we define and use privacy frameworks and research methods that lead to more generalizable privacy knowledge?
Theme 2 - Responding to a Quickly Evolving Technology Landscape: How can we produce privacy knowledge that keeps pace with rapid technology shifts?
Theme 3 - Navigating Pluralism: How can researchers account for the plurality of privacy perspectives and experiences in privacy research and knowledge?
Theme 4 - Making Societal Impact: How can we produce actionable privacy research that makes a real-world impact, engaging both policy and industry?
This workshop will make the following contributions:
Build a community of dedicated privacy researchers that can lead to new collaborations and mentorship opportunities for new privacy scholars.
Establish a knowledge base to help scholars conceptualize existing work and build on that literature.
Provide a roadmap for future research directions to the privacy community, outlining a collection of gaps and challenges in the domain.
Call for Participation
We will invite researchers, practitioners, policymakers, community partners, and other stakeholders with an interest or experience in online privacy. This one-day workshop aims to create a collaborative environment where participants can engage in interdisciplinary discussions, share their experiences, and contribute to the development of strategies and frameworks that advance the privacy research landscape.
Interested participants are asked to submit a brief statement of interest, demonstrating their alignment with the workshop goals. Submissions can take one of the following formats:
A short bio with a statement of motivation/interest for attending the workshop.
A 2-4 page position paper contributing to one or more themes described in this proposal. References do not count toward the page limit.
Previously published work in the area.
We encourage submissions from individuals of diverse backgrounds, expertise, and experiences. Since workshop submissions are non-archival, we encourage participants to send their work in progress that has been submitted in previous venues. Submissions should be in PDF format and should include author names. Each submission will undergo review by two organizers, with acceptance based on the quality, relevance to workshop themes, and the potential for meaningful contributions to the workshop discussions and goals.
Suggested Formatting:
Template: ACM Master Article Submission Templates, single column (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-journals-new-master-template/vgtfrcvmrvxf)
Please submit your submission to: https://forms.gle/PwtbHfMtfVaEqpYb6
Submission deadline: July 31st, 2026
Notification of workshop acceptance: August 7th, 2026
Workshop date: October 10th, 2026
Questions?
Please contact organizers Kirsten Chapman at kac273@byu.edu or Dr. Xinru Page at xinru@cs.byu.edu.