Faklaris, CoriHook, Sara Anne2016-09-302016-09-302016-09-30Faklaris, C., and Hook, S.A.: Sharing Is Scaring: Legal + Ethical Issues with Shared Content in Social Media and Mobile Messaging Apps [poster]. InWIC (Indiana Celebration of Women in Computing) Annual Conference, West Lafayette, Indiana, September 30, 2016.https://hdl.handle.net/1805/11061Even if you can reuse, aggregate or share that photo, video, meme or text, should you? Our mixed-methods study explores the legal and ethical issues involved in content-sharing practices in social media and messaging apps through analysis of public policy challenges, related work in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) literature and quantitative and qualitative data. Key concepts in the study include copyright law, plagiarism, user-generated content (UGC) and fair use.en-USCopyrightPlagiarismUser-generated content (UGC)Fair usePublic policyEthicsMixed-methods studyPoster