Sriya Sridhar

To meet this challenge, the regime must evolve from content-centred regulation to systems-level accountability —from evaluating discrete outputs to interrogating the design logic of digital environments. This requires a shift in regulatory maturity: what might be called a second-order regime , one that targets architectural manipulation as a first-... See more

“People aren't longing to be impressed; they're longing to feel like they're home. If you create a space full of love and character and creativity and soul, they'll take off their shoes and curl up with gratitude and rest, no matter how small, no matter how undone, no matter how odd.” ― Shauna Niequist

We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like “annoying” or “distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and ke... See more

So are adjacent constructs such as deceptive design , manipulative architecture , exploitative UX , or coercive interface strategies . This is not a question of rhetorical preference. Still, of regulatory conceptualisation : the absence of these terms signals a deeper failure to classify and codify interface-driven manipulation as a standalone risk... See more

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