Online Manipulation: Hidden Influences in a Digital World

By Daniel Susser, B. Roessler, Helen Nissenbaum. 2018

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Opt out of privacy or "go home": understanding reluctant privacy behaviours through the FoMO-centric design paradigm (2019, unknown): “’s [70] definition: “hidden influence–the covert subversion of another person’s decision-making power.”
Citizens Versus the Internet: Confronting Digital Challenges With Cognitive Tools (2019, background): “It neither persuades people nor deprives them of their options; instead, it exploits their vulnerabilities and cognitive shortcomings (Susser et al., 2019).”
Dark Patterns at Scale (2019, background): “hich are deviations from rational behavior justified by some “biased” line of reasoning [50]—in users they exploit to their advantage. We ground this taxonomy in the literature on online manipulation [33, 75, 81] and by studying the types of dark patterns highlighted in previous work [31, 47]. Our t”