Publications (13)
Rally and WebScience: A Platform and Toolkit for Browser-Based Research on Technology and Society Problems
Anne Kohlbrenner, Ben Kaiser, Kartikeya Kandula +4
Empirical technology and society research is in a methodological crisis. Problems increasingly involve closed platforms, targeted content, and context-specific behavior. Prevailing…
Adapting Security Warnings to Counter Online Disinformation
Ben Kaiser, Jerry Wei, Eli Lucherini +3
Disinformation is proliferating on the internet, and platforms are responding by attaching warnings to content. There is little evidence, however, that these warnings help users id…
What Makes a Dark Pattern... Dark? Design Attributes, Normative Considerations, and Measurement Methods
Arunesh Mathur, Jonathan Mayer, Mihir Kshirsagar
There is a rapidly growing literature on dark patterns, user interface designs -- typically related to shopping or privacy -- that researchers deem problematic. Recent work has bee…
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
Arunesh Mathur, Gunes Acar, Michael J. Friedman +4
Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. W…
SoK: Content Moderation for End-to-End Encryption
Sarah Scheffler, Jonathan Mayer
Popular messaging applications now enable end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) by default, and E2EE data storage is becoming common. These important advances for security and privacy creat…
Self-Censorship Under Law: A Case Study of the Hong Kong National Security Law
Mona Wang, Jonathan Mayer
We study how legislation that restricts speech can induce online self-censorship and alter online discourse, using the recent Hong Kong national security law as a case study. We co…