Technology and Democracy: Understanding the influence of online technologies on political behaviour and decision-making

LEWANDOWSKY, Stephan; SMILLIE, Laura; GARCIA, David; HERTWIG, Ralph; WEATHERALL, Jim; EGIDY, Stefanie; ROBERTSON, Ronald E.; O’CONNOR, Cailin; KOZYREVA, Anastasia; LORENZ-SPREEN, Philipp; BLASCHKE, Yannic; LEISER, Mark

doi:10.2760/709177

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Technology and Democracy: Understanding the influence of online technologies on political behaviour and decision-making

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Drawing from many disciplines, the report adopts a behavioural psychology perspective to argue that “social media changes people’s political behaviour”. Four pressure points are identified and analysed in detail: the attention economy; choice architectures; algorithmic content curation; and mis/disinformation. Policy implications are outlined in detail.

LEWANDOWSKY Stephan; SMILLIE Laura; GARCIA David; HERTWIG Ralph; WEATHERALL Jim; EGIDY Stefanie; ROBERTSON Ronald E.; O’CONNOR Cailin; KOZYREVA Anastasia; LORENZ-SPREEN Philipp; BLASCHKE Yannic; LEISER Mark

2020-10-27

Publications Office of the European Union

JRC122023

978-92-76-24088-4 (online) , 978-92-76-24089-1 (print) , 978-92-76-40796-6

1831-9424 (online) , 1018-5593 (print) , 1831-9424

EUR 30422 EN , OP KJ-NA-30422-EN-N (online) , OP KJ-NA-30422-EN-C (print) , OP KJ-NA-30422-EN-E

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC122023

10.2760/709177 (online) , 10.2760/593478 (print) , 10.2760/322964

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ENG	European Commission: Joint Research Centre, LEWANDOWSKY, S., SMILLIE, L., GARCIA, D., HERTWIG, R., WEATHERALL, J., EGIDY, S., ROBERTSON, R.E., O’CONNOR, C., KOZYREVA, A., LORENZ-SPREEN, P., BLASCHKE, Y. and LEISER, M., Technology and Democracy: Understanding the influence of online technologies on political behaviour and decision-making, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/709177, JRC122023.

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