The Philosophy of Online Manipulation

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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).

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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.

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1. Introduction and Overview of Chapters, Fleur Jongepier & Michael Klenk

Part I Conceptual and methodological questions

2. Online Manipulation: Charting the Field, Fleur Jongepier & Michael Klenk

3. Online Manipulation and Agential Risk, Max Cappuccio, Constantine Sandis, & Austin Wyatt

4. How philosophy might contribute to the practical ethics of online manipulation, Anne Barnhill

5. Manipulative Machines, *Jessica Pepp, Rachel Sterken, Matthew McKeever, & Eliot Michaelson*

6. Manipulation, Injustice, and Technology, Michael Klenk Part II Threats to autonomy, freedom, and meaning in life

7. Commercial Online Choice Architecture: When Roads Are Paved With Bad Intentions, Bart Engelen & Thomas Nys

8. Microtargeting people as a mere means, Fleur Jongepier & Jan-Willem Wieland

9. Manipulation as Digital Invasion: A neo-republican approach, Marianna Capasso

10. Gamification, Manipulation, and Domination, Moti Gorin

11. Manipulative Design Through Gamification, W. Jared Parmer

12. Technological manipulation and threats to Meaning in Life, Sven Nyholm

13. Digital Manipulation and Mental Integrity, Geoff Keeling & Christopher Burr Part III Epistemic, affective, and political harms and risks

14. Is There A Duty To Disclose Epistemic Risk?, Hanna Gunn

15. Promoting Vices: Designing the Web for Manipulation, Lukas Schwenger

16. Online Affective Manipulation, Nathan Wildman, Natascha Rietdijk, & Alfred Archer

17. Manipulation and the Affective Realm of Social Media, Alexander Fischer

18. Social Media, Emergent Manipulation, and Political Legitimacy, Adam Pham, Alan Rubel, & Clinton Castro Part IV Legal and regulatory perspectives

19. Regulating Online Defaults, Kalle Grill

20. Manipulation, real-time profiling, and their wrongs, Lucas Miotto & Jiahong Chen