Transformation of Personal Data Storage Culture: Comparative Analysis of Traditional and Digitalized Methods

Student: Artem Kuzmenko

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Sociology and Social Informatics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2024

This article examines the influence of various factors (social and demographic, family relationships, education and connectivity with it, etc.) on how people choose their preferences in choosing personal data storage - from traditional offline methods to online cloud methods. The study also conducted 20 semi-structured interviews on this topic with students and one of their parents to try to understand how (and whether) preferences in choosing a data storage method depend on family values or rules/traditions established in the family.

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