Dataveillance inhibits legitimate communication: causal evidence for chilling effects.
Chilling effects are an undesirable consequence of the datafication of communication: people may refrain from entirely lawful online activities due to fear of negative repercussions based on their digital traces. Our preregistered, longitudinal online field experiment randomly exposed 827 participan...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication Vol. 76; no. 4; pp. 277 - 290 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Aug2026
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