# Online Privacy Fatigue: A Scoping Review and Research Agenda
###### Abstract
This is not to mention the central role privacy plays in the IS discipline and related artefacts [PERSON] et al. (2018). However, little research has been conducted with a specific focus on privacy fatigue. Often, those who do study privacy fatigue conceptualize it differently by referring to it as exhaustion, cynicism, helplessness, or powerlessness. This makes it difficult to synthesize the associated results given the lack of consensus on how it is conceptualized. Additionally, there is a lack of studies that systematically summarize existing online privacy fatigue research with the aim of pointing out promising areas for future research. It would, therefore, be valuable to investigate how online privacy fatigue has been studied thus far and in doing so map the current research landscape. This would not only allow for a summary of the important topical aspects often studied in relation to privacy fatigue (i.e., the antecedents used, conceptualizations thereof, and outcomes identified) but also for an overview of the chosen methodological approaches. The objective of this scoping review is therefore to provide researchers with an overview of the current research landscape pertaining to online privacy fatigue with the aim of establishing an informed research agenda. To assist in the development of the research agenda, the following research questions were posed:  
**RQ1.What methodological approaches are typically used when studying online privacy fatigue? **: _The aim of this question was to understand what different methods (both qualitative and quantitative) have been used when studying online privacy fatigue. Additionally, it aimed to critique the application of the methods used to guide the development of recommendations that formed part of the research agenda._
**RQ2.How is online privacy fatigue conceptualized in extant literature? **: _Researchers do not always explicitly conceptualize and explain their understanding of privacy fatigue. This question aimed to extract and summarize how the extant literature has conceptualized online privacy fatigue to provide some consensus in this regard. Answering this question could assist in the design of a suitable methodology (e.g., choosing appropriate measurement items)._
**RQ3.What are the antecedents of online privacy fatigue and how does extant research relate them to the outcomes thereof? **: _This question aimed to provide a conceptual link between the antecedents and outcomes identified to indicate where most antecedent-based research is currently clustered. Together with RQ2, this information could be used to conceptualize online privacy fatigue using novel combinations of antecedents to explore under-researched outcomes._  
By addressing these questions, this scoping review contributes on several fronts. _First_, it provides a summative overview of the theories and methods used. _Second_, it provides a holistic view of the way the extant research has conceptualized privacy fatigue. _Third_, it produces a clear understanding of the conceptual link between the antecedents used and the outcomes of online privacy fatigue. _Fourth_, and most importantly, it establishes a research agenda consisting of several research recommendations--all of which aim to guide future online privacy fatigue research. This scoping review is structured as follows: Section 2 lays out the method, with the Appendix A reporting on the results of the data charting process. Section 3 reports on the findings, and Section 4 discusses these by making several research recommendations. Section 5 discusses the limitations of this study, and Section 6 draws conclusions.