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“Google Told Me So!” On the Bent Testimony of Search Engine Algorithms
Search engines are important contemporary sources of information and contribute to sha** our beliefs about the world. Each time they are consulted,...
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Internet, the Encyclopedic Competence, and the Google Effect
The basis of this study is the encyclopedic model of culture by Umberto Eco[aut]Eco, Umberto. Even before I turned my interest towards...
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Towards the End of the Designer Fallacy: How the Internet Empowers Designers over Users
Multistability—the plurality of meanings of technological artifacts—is an emancipatory phenomenon insofar as it allows the user to freely appropriate...
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The Right to be Forgotten: an Islamic Perspective
In a landmark 1994 case, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that individuals had the right to ask for Internet links that contained...
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Search engines, cognitive biases and the man–computer interaction: a theoretical framework for empirical researches about cognitive biases in online search on health-related topics
The widespread use of online search engines to answer the general public’s needs for information has raised concerns about possible biases and the...
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Gatekee** should be conserved in the open science era
The elimination of gatekeepers for scientific publication has been represented as a means to promote the core moral values of open science, including...
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Deepfake Pornography and the Ethics of Non-Veridical Representations
We investigate the question of whether (and if so why) creating or distributing deepfake pornography of someone without their consent is inherently...
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Regulating Communicative Risk: Online Harms and Subjective Rights
States are in the process of creating controversial legislation aimed at subjecting ‘harmful’ online communication on social media and search engines...
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Serendipity and Knowledge Organisation
Toby Burrows and Deb Verhoeven return to Walpole’sWalpole original story of the Three Princes of SerendipThe Three Princes of Serendip to remind us...
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MNEs’ Ambidexterity Strategies and Moral Conflicts: The Case of Google in China
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) must often address moral conflicts given their responsibilities to meet conflicting demands from diverse...
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Lost in translation? Conceptions of privacy and independence in the technical development of AI-based AAL
AAL encompasses smart home technologies that are installed in the personal living environment in order to support older, disabled, as well as...
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Digital Kitsch: Art and Kitsch in the Informational Milieu
How has the advent and widespread use of digital media affected our understanding of kitsch its relationship to art? Along this chapter, the author...
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Licensing and Usage Rights of Language Data in Machine Translation
Machine translation (MT) is special in that it heavily relies on data. In rule-based MT, an engine performs the translation task by using language...
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Quantum Bose–Einstein Statistics for Indistinguishable Concepts in Human Language
We investigate the hypothesis that within a combination of a ‘number concept’ plus a ‘substantive concept’, such as ‘eleven animals’, the identity...
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Technicity and the Power of Institution
Our question is whether technicality can institute, and thus create a new power, or even legitimize and maintain institutions. It claims to do so,...
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What is a related work? A typology of relationships in research literature
An important part of research is situating one’s work in a body of existing literature, thereby connecting to existing ideas. Despite this, the...
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To Each Technology Its Own Ethics: The Problem of Ethical Proliferation
Ethics plays a key role in the normative analysis of the impacts of technology. We know that computers in general and the processing of data, the use...
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Map** the Apps: Ethical and Legal Issues with Crowdsourced Smartphone Data using mHealth Applications
More than 5 billion people in the world own a smartphone. More than half of these have been used to collect and process health-related data. As such,...
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Unpleasant Memories on the Web in Employment Relations: A Ricoeurian Approach
Cybervetting has become common practice in personnel decision-making processes of organizations. While it represents a quick and inexpensive way of...
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ChatGPT is no Stochastic Parrot. But it also Claims that 1 is Greater than 1
This article is a commentary on ChatGPT and LLMs (Large Language Models) in general. It argues that this technology has matured to the point where...
