“Making Sense” of Scholarly Journal Article

• file:///Users/adawang/Downloads/Bode_et_al-2018-Policy_&_Internet.pdf
• Research Question(s): Who would support this right-to-forget law? How do people feel about privacy?

• Conceptual Definitions/Descriptions:

Right to be Forgotten, digital erasure, public opinion, survey research, digital privacy

• Methods and Instruments:
• Measures-Demographics include age, gender, race, and partisanship, Internet Use and Opinions, Descriptive Statistics for Each Measure
• Government Attitudes, Corporate Attitudes
• Ordinary Least Squares Regression Predicting Support for a Right to be Forgotten

• Key Findings/Results:

find that women are more likely to support such a law, as are those who are particularly concerned about online privacy, and those who express the greatest confidence in Google. Those who think the government is too large are less likely to support such legislation. This suggests a complicated road forward for a Right to be Forgotten in the United States, with coalitions of support crossing traditional political boundaries.

• Argument: (i) that related to the law itself, and the legal possibilities and implications for such a law
  in the United States; and (ii) that related to public perceptions of such a law.
• Overall, support for the proposed law is strong—67.1 percent support or strongly support it, whereas only 13 percent oppose or strongly oppose it
• Attitudes about government control also predict support for the law
• Finally, confidence in Google is positively related to support for the law, which is the opposite of what was predicted by H6A.