@article{ART003216178},
author={OH, Jinnyoung and MYUNG-JU CHUN},
title={Digital Persuasive Design(DPT) and the Ethics of Autonomy : Slot-Machine Metaphor, Nudge, and Digital Habitus},
journal={인문논총 },
issn={2005-6222},
year={2025},
volume={67},
pages={271-295}
TY - JOUR
AU - OH, Jinnyoung
AU - MYUNG-JU CHUN
TI - Digital Persuasive Design(DPT) and the Ethics of Autonomy : Slot-Machine Metaphor, Nudge, and Digital Habitus
JO - 인문논총
PY - 2025
VL - 67
IS - null
PB - Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
SP - 271
EP - 295
SN - 2005-6222
AB - This study theoretically investigates how Digital Persuasive Technology (DPT) systematically undermines users’ autonomous judgment. by infiltrating their cognitive architecture through mechanisms such as intermittent reward structures and visual nudges. By framing the smartphone as a “slot machine,” this paper elucidates how algorithmically designed reward unpredictability triggers dopaminergic sensitization and suppresses prefrontal control, thereby reconfiguring decision-making from reflective deliberation to conditioned stimulus-response. Building on Bourdieu’s framework, this article theorizes a digital habitus as the iterative internalization of algorithmically orchestrated design logics, gradually misrecognized as self-generated cognitive schemata. This process transforms reflective agents into conditioned responders within pre-structured environments, thereby undermining self-regulation and critical reasoning while eroding the attentional commons essential for democratic deliberation. Accordingly, this study advocates a reorientation of digital ethics—beyond the narrow purview of privacy—towards normatively grounded regulation and a renewed pedagogy of critical thinking. Such a shift aims to expose and resist the algorithmic preconfiguration of cognition, thereby safeguarding cognitive sovereignty in an age of pervasive persuasive design.
KW - digital persuasive technology;digital ethics;autonomy;nudge;digital habitus;critical thinking
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OH, Jinnyoung and MYUNG-JU CHUN. (2025). Digital Persuasive Design(DPT) and the Ethics of Autonomy : Slot-Machine Metaphor, Nudge, and Digital Habitus. 인문논총 , 67, 271-295.
OH, Jinnyoung and MYUNG-JU CHUN. 2025, "Digital Persuasive Design(DPT) and the Ethics of Autonomy : Slot-Machine Metaphor, Nudge, and Digital Habitus", 인문논총 , vol.67, pp.271-295.
OH, Jinnyoung, MYUNG-JU CHUN "Digital Persuasive Design(DPT) and the Ethics of Autonomy : Slot-Machine Metaphor, Nudge, and Digital Habitus" 인문논총 67 pp.271-295 (2025) : 271.
OH, Jinnyoung, MYUNG-JU CHUN. Digital Persuasive Design(DPT) and the Ethics of Autonomy : Slot-Machine Metaphor, Nudge, and Digital Habitus. 2025; 67 271-295.
OH, Jinnyoung and MYUNG-JU CHUN. "Digital Persuasive Design(DPT) and the Ethics of Autonomy : Slot-Machine Metaphor, Nudge, and Digital Habitus" 인문논총 67(2025) : 271-295.
OH, Jinnyoung; MYUNG-JU CHUN. Digital Persuasive Design(DPT) and the Ethics of Autonomy : Slot-Machine Metaphor, Nudge, and Digital Habitus. 인문논총 , 67, 271-295.
OH, Jinnyoung; MYUNG-JU CHUN. Digital Persuasive Design(DPT) and the Ethics of Autonomy : Slot-Machine Metaphor, Nudge, and Digital Habitus. 인문논총 . 2025; 67 271-295.
OH, Jinnyoung, MYUNG-JU CHUN. Digital Persuasive Design(DPT) and the Ethics of Autonomy : Slot-Machine Metaphor, Nudge, and Digital Habitus. 2025; 67 271-295.
OH, Jinnyoung and MYUNG-JU CHUN. "Digital Persuasive Design(DPT) and the Ethics of Autonomy : Slot-Machine Metaphor, Nudge, and Digital Habitus" 인문논총 67(2025) : 271-295.
