Perspectives on Open Science and The Future of Scholarly Communication: Internet Trackers and Algorithmic Persuasion.

ABSTRACT: The current digital content industry is heavily oriented towards building platforms that track users' behaviour and seek to convince them to stay longer and come back sooner onto the platform. Similarly, authors are incentivised to publish more and to become champions of dissemination. Arguably, these incentive systems are built around public reputation supported by a system of metrics, hard to be assessed. Generally, the digital content industry is permeable to non-human contributors (algorithms that are able to generate content and reactions), anonymity and identity fraud. It is pertinent to present a perspective paper about early signs of track and persuasion in scholarly communication. Building our views, we have run a pilot study to determine the opportunity for conducting research ab

SUBMITTER: Ignat T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8734967 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature