Construction of typologies and clusters, on security and privacy in social networks

The article reflects on the perception and management of security and privacy in virtual social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. It presents a case of investigation, from the methodological triangulation and the obtaining and sequential interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data. It describes the process of obtaining information and qualitative analysis, starting from the guidelines of the Discourse of structural semiotics on a corpus composed of group of discussion, That later, they derive in a quantitative measuring instrument, which gives rise to the construction of clusters. Based on a general perspective on online information management, structural positions, discursive migrations, and specific attitudinal profiles relating to each user are identified. Finally, they are quantified in a given scenario.