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(Online) manipulation

Sometimes hidden, always careless

Bibliographic Data

ID9256807
AuthorsMichael Klenk (0000-0002-1483-0799, Delft University of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume80
Issue1
Pages85-105
Publication date2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of Social Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00346764.2021.1894350
OpenAlexW3140445995
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited25

Ever-increasing numbers of human interactions with intelligent software agents, online and offline, and their increasing ability to influence humans have prompted a surge in attention toward the concept of (online) manipulation. Several scholars have argued that manipulative influence is always hidden. But manipulation is sometimes overt, and when this is acknowledged the distinction between manipulation and other forms of social influence becomes problematic. Therefore, we need a better conceptualisation of manipulation that allows it to be overt and yet clearly distinct from related concepts of social influence. I argue that manipulation is careless influence, show how this account helps to alleviate the shortcomings of the hidden influence view of manipulation, and derive implications for digital ethics

Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Internet privacy · Computer Science · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology

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