Sriya Sridhar
@sris
Academic studying tech law and policy, seeking things that make sense and perpetual calm. Lit and poetry are my first loves
Sriya Sridhar
By failing to name and frame manipulative design practices, the guidance forecloses regulatory attention to the intentional structuring of user behaviour through interface , leaving the architecture that governs exposure, prolongs engagement, and shapes digital habitus unexamined. It also limits the evidentiary expectations placed on service... See more
Dr Mark R Leiser • Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
The Til – The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
Attention is a finite resource, and how we choose to spend our attention online is, in some ways, a direct reflection of where human culture has gone in an era where access to information is basically unlimited. We are very much in our teenage years—that is, we suddenly have all these new capabilities and it’s really easy to just run wild. But... See more
Laurel Schwulst • Charles Broskoski on self-discovery that happens upon revisiting things you’ve accumulated over time
“You mean to say,” I asked, “that people don’t really want out of the relationship itself, they just want out of the dynamic?” “That’s right,” she said. “They don’t want to go away from the person, necessarily. They want away from the feeling.”
Joshua Wolf Shenk • Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
A child need not encounter violent, pornographic, or hateful content to suffer profound harm; it is enough to be entrapped by infinite scroll mechanisms, gamified feedback loops, or pseudo-choice interfaces that distort perception, erode self-control, and monetise vulnerability. These harms are not accidental—they are deliberate artefacts of... See more
Dr Mark R Leiser • Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
