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Nudges and the power of choice architecture

By Dan Lockton ⋅ June 10, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments
Nudges and the power of choice architecture

An ‘advance uncorrected page proof’ of Nudge I managed to get off Abebooks. Thanks to Hien Nguyen for the photo.
Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, is a publishing sensation of the moment, no doubt helped by Thaler’s work advising Barack Obama (many thanks to Johan Strandell for originally pointing me in Thaler and [...]

The future of academic exposure?

By Dan Lockton ⋅ October 10, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments
The future of academic exposure?

A lot of research is published each year.
Now that I’m a student again, I’ve got access (via Athens) to a vastly increased amount of academic journals, papers and so on. Far more than I could have done ‘legitimately’ without that Athens login, aside from travelling from library to library to library. And while it’s good [...]

Review: We Know What You Want by Martin Howard

By Dan Lockton ⋅ October 3, 2006 ⋅ One comment
Review: We Know What You Want by Martin Howard

A couple of weeks ago, Martin Howard sent me details of his blog, How They Change Your Mind and book, We Know What You Want: How They Change Your Mind, published last year by Disinformation. You can review the blog for yourselves – it has some fascinating details on product placement, paid news segments, astroturfing [...]

Review: Everyware by Adam Greenfield

By Dan Lockton ⋅ July 22, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment
Review: Everyware by Adam Greenfield

This is the first book review I’ve done on this blog, though it won’t be the last. In a sense, this is less of a conventional review than an attempt to discuss some of the ideas in the book, and synthesise them with points that have been raised by the examination of architectures of control: [...]

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