Hidden Persuasion: Big Alcohol's Tactics on Social Media. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Alcohol marketing is harmful as it increases the consumption of alcohol, age of initiation of alcohol and hazardous drinking patterns. Dark nudges and sludge are behavioural economics techniques used to exploit cognitive biases to manipulate consumers to make decisions that are not in their best interest.
McLellan G +5 more
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Citizens Versus the Internet: Confronting Digital Challenges With Cognitive Tools. [PDF]
The Internet has evolved into a ubiquitous digital environment in which people communicate, seek information, and make decisions. Online environments are replete with smart, highly adaptive choice architectures designed primarily to maximize commercial ...
Kozyreva A, Lewandowsky S, Hertwig R.
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Digital Dark Nudge: An Exploration of When Digital Nudges Unethically Depart [PDF]
Digital nudging in information systems has become widely prevalent to guide consumers during online decision-making. However, while nudging is about improving the decisions and behaviors in various domains, limited research has explored when digital nudges unethically depart from their intended purpose, whereby opt-in favors profit motives over the ...
Costello, Francis Joseph +2 more
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The Dark Side of Privacy Nudging – An Experimental Study in the Context of a Digital Work Environment [PDF]
Privacy nudging is a promising method to get users to disclose less personal information in digital work environments. In this work, we tested two digital privacy nudges: a social and a framing nudge. To empirically measure the effectiveness of the two privacy nudges, we developed an online experiment.
Barev, Torben Jan +2 more
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Private and Public in Surveillance Capitalism – Protective and Active Approach
The paper deals with the protection of the private and public spheres in surveillance capitalism. Predictions on consumer behaviour or the so-called behavioural surpluses are extracted from the set of collected (big) data of users/consumers from the so ...
Anita Peša
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PRECEPT:a framework for ethical digital forensics investigations [PDF]
Purpose: Cyber-enabled crimes are on the increase, and law enforcement has had to expand many of their detecting activities into the digital domain. As such, the field of digital forensics has become far more sophisticated over the years and is now able ...
Ferguson, R.I. +3 more
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Ethical guidelines for nudging in information security & privacy [PDF]
There has recently been an upsurge of interest in the deployment of behavioural economics techniques in the information security and privacy domain. In this paper, we consider first the nature of one particular intervention, the nudge, and the way it ...
Renaud, Karen, Zimmermann, Verena
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Technology, autonomy, and manipulation [PDF]
Since 2016, when the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal began to emerge, public concern has grown around the threat of “online manipulation”. While these worries are familiar to privacy researchers, this paper aims to make them more salient to ...
Nissenbaum, Helen +2 more
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Increasing occurrence of cold and warm extremes during the recent global warming slowdown. [PDF]
The recent levelling of global mean temperatures after the late 1990s, the so-called global warming hiatus or slowdown, ignited a surge of scientific interest into natural global mean surface temperature variability, observed temperature biases, and ...
Johnson, Nathaniel C +3 more
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We are the Change that we Seek: Information Interactions During a Change of Viewpoint [PDF]
There has been considerable hype about filter bubbles and echo chambers influencing the views of information consumers. The fear is that these technologies are undermining democracy by swaying opinion and creating an uninformed, polarised populace.
Adamic L.A. +21 more
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