The Philosophy of Online Manipulation

This book provides philosophical depth to debates in digital ethics about online manipulation. The chapters explore the ramifications of our interactions with online technologies such as online recommender systems, social media, user friendly design, microtargeting, default settings, gamification, and real time profiling.

Author: Fleur Jongepier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/29/2024
Pages: 412
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781032071145

About the Author

Fleur Jongepier is Assistant Professor in digital ethics at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. She is currently working on a research project on the impact of algorithms on our capacity for self-knowledge and autonomy, and the ways in which algorithms are said to know us 'better than we know ourselves'. She is also interested in feminist ethics, self and identity, moral pedagogy, and is actively engaged in public philosophy.

Michael Klenk is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His work is at the intersection of metaethics, moral psychology, and the philosophy of technology. He is the editor of Higher-Order Evidence and Moral Epistemology (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of Philosophy in the Age of Science? Inquiries into Philosophical Progress, Method, and Societal Relevance (2020).