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View article: Social media, emergent manipulation, and political legitimacy
Social media, emergent manipulation, and political legitimacy Open
Psychometrics firms such as Cambridge Analytica (CA) and troll factories such as the Internet Research Agency (IRA) have had a significant effect on democratic politics, through narrow targeting of political advertising (CA) and concerted …
View article: Autonomy, Agency, and Responsibility
Autonomy, Agency, and Responsibility Open
This chapter outlines the conception of autonomy that grounds the arguments throughout the book. We begin with a basic definition of autonomy as self-government, distinguish global and local autonomy, and explain how autonomy may be unders…
View article: Index
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View article: Conclusions and Caveats
Conclusions and Caveats Open
It is fitting that the last example we introduced in the book was about the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) use of social media, analytics, and recommendation systems to wage disinformation campaigns and sow anger and social discord on th…
View article: What Can Agents Reasonably Endorse?
What Can Agents Reasonably Endorse? Open
Chapter 3 takes the conception of autonomy outlined in chapter 2 and explains how it grounds moral evaluation of algorithmic systems. It begins by offering a view of what it takes to respect autonomy and to respect persons in virtue of the…
View article: Epistemic Paternalism and Social Media
Epistemic Paternalism and Social Media Open
In this chapter, we address some distinctively epistemic problems that algorithms pose in the context of social media and argue that in some cases that epistemic problems warrant paternalistic interventions. Our paternalistic proposal to t…
View article: Algorithms and Autonomy
Algorithms and Autonomy Open
Algorithms influence every facet of modern life: criminal justice, education, housing, entertainment, elections, social media, news feeds, work… the list goes on. Delegating important decisions to machines, however, gives rise to deep mora…
View article: What We Informationally Owe Each Other
What We Informationally Owe Each Other Open
One important criticism of algorithmic systems is that they lack transparency. Such systems can be opaque because they are complex, protected by patent or trade secret, or deliberately obscure. In the EU, there is a debate about whether th…
View article: Democratic Obligations and Technological Threats to Legitimacy
Democratic Obligations and Technological Threats to Legitimacy Open
This chapter addresses autonomy’s role in democratic governance. Political authority may be justifiable or not. Whether it is justified and how it can come to be justified is a question of political legitimacy, which is in turn a function …
View article: Freedom, Agency, and Information Technology
Freedom, Agency, and Information Technology Open
This chapter connects our arguments about agency and autonomy in chapters 2-4 to conceptions of freedom and its value. We argue that freedom has two fundamental conditions: that persons be undominated by others and that they have an adequa…
View article: Is the Attention Economy Noxious?
Is the Attention Economy Noxious? Open
A growing amount of media is paid for by its consumers through their very consumption of it. Typically, this new media is web-based and paid for by advertising. It includes the services offered by Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube…
View article: Acoustic Shields - A Study of Field Attenuation
Acoustic Shields - A Study of Field Attenuation Open
This is a study of the sound attenuation of acoustic shields used in a symphonic orchestra to protect musicians’ hearing. The shields were placed right behind the ears of players who had the highest exposure to the sound of instruments in …
View article: Stochasticity, Selection, and the Evolution of Cooperation in a Two‐Level Moran Model of the Snowdrift Game
Stochasticity, Selection, and the Evolution of Cooperation in a Two‐Level Moran Model of the Snowdrift Game Open
The Snowdrift Game, also known as the Hawk‐Dove Game, is a social dilemma in which an individual can participate (cooperate) or not (defect) in producing a public good. It is relevant to a number of collective action problems in biology. I…
View article: Mainstream economics and the Austrian school: toward reunification
Mainstream economics and the Austrian school: toward reunification Open
In this paper, I compare the methodology of the Austrian school to two alternative methodologies from the economic mainstream: the 'orthodox' and revealed preference methodologies. I argue that Austrian school theorists should stop describ…