Economies of action are deliberately built to herd users along prescribed courses.

Evidence

11. Social persuasion: As we have seen repeatedly, there is an endless cascade of beguiling rhetoric aimed at persuading people of the wonders associated with surveillance capitalist innovations: targeted advertising, personalization, and digital assistants. Beyond that, economies of action are intentionally designed to persuade us to follow one another along prescribed courses of action. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1087

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines economies of action as a design mechanism of herd persuasion.
• XREF: Connects to We’s engineered collective following and White Noise’s critique of mediated desire. — connects to: Economies of action get institutionalized into automated algorithms that modify behavior — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 939; Herding forecloses action alternatives to move behavior toward near-certain outcomes remotely. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 922; Social influence becomes a design mechanism for herding populations toward planned outcomes — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1364 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Herding forecloses action alternatives to move behavior toward near-certain outcomes remotely. #expands (0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 922
• Economies of action get institutionalized into automated algorithms that modify behavior #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 939
• Social influence becomes a design mechanism for herding populations toward planned outcomes #corroborates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1364
• Herding is constitutive of sociality and need not be moralized away. #qualifies (0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 107