Digital behavioral technology, vulnerability and justice: towards an integrated approach

IF 1.6 Q2 ECONOMICS

REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI:10.1080/00346764.2021.1943755

Lisa Herzog, P. Kellmeyer, V. Wild

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The paper introduces the notion of ‘digital behavioral technologies’ and discusses them from the perspectives of vulnerability and justice, thereby integrating perspectives from bioethics or public health ethics and political philosophy. Digital behavioral technologies have seen a massive uptake in recent years, but the market for them is hardly regulated. We argue that understanding the impact of digital behavioral technologies requires understanding individuals not as abstract, atomized agents, but rather to take their embeddedness into social structures into account. This also allows extending the focus to groups, relationships and whole societies, which are often structurally unjust. This perspective provides a corrective to an overly individualistic consideration of digital behavioral technologies, which may suggest itself because of their focus on individual bodies. We point out some implications of this integrated approach with regard to the regulation of digital behavioral technologies. We conclude by describing some implications both for those who work on digital behavioral technologies and for those who work on questions of vulnerability and justice.

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数字行为技术、脆弱性和正义:迈向综合方法

摘要本文引入了“数字行为技术”的概念，并从脆弱性和公正性的角度对其进行了讨论，从而整合了生物伦理学或公共卫生伦理学和政治哲学的观点。近年来，数字行为技术得到了巨大的发展，但它们的市场几乎没有受到监管。我们认为，理解数字行为技术的影响需要理解个人，而不是将其理解为抽象的、原子化的代理人，而是要考虑到他们对社会结构的嵌入性。这也允许将重点扩大到群体、关系和整个社会，而这些往往在结构上是不公正的。这种观点纠正了对数字行为技术过于个人主义的考虑，这可能是因为它们关注个人身体。我们指出了这种综合方法对数字行为技术监管的一些影响。最后，我们描述了一些对数字行为技术研究人员和脆弱性和正义问题研究人员的启示。

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REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY ECONOMICS-

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2.60

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10.00%

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期刊介绍： For over sixty-five years, the Review of Social Economy has published high-quality peer-reviewed work on the many relationships between social values and economics. The field of social economics discusses how the economy and social justice relate, and what this implies for economic theory and policy. Papers published range from conceptual work on aligning economic institutions and policies with given ethical principles, to theoretical representations of individual behaviour that allow for both self-interested and "pro-social" motives, and to original empirical work on persistent social issues such as poverty, inequality, and discrimination.