Google Scholar’s platform dynamics undermine the academy’s ability to understand how it evaluates itself.
News and Research articles on Autonomy
Online manipulation
Autonomy and online manipulation
More and more researchers argue that online technologies manipulate human users and, therefore, undermine their autonomy. This view of online technology, however, fails conceptually.
The text reviews current technological developments and the challenges they pose for privacy. It provides an overview of the relevant theories of privacy and their recent developments in light of technological changes.
Currently dominant cloud services raise challenges in terms of security, privacy and user autonomy. Decentralisation, advocated by civil society, may overcome some of the drawbacks.
This article presents a general analysis of how user autonomy in the internet cloud is increasingly put into jeopardy by the growing comfort and efficiency of the user-interface. Although this issue has not been, thus far, explicitly addressed by the law, it is a fundamental ethical question that should be carefully assessed to guide the future
