Professor Andrew McStay
Professor in Technology & Society
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Name: Andrew McStay
Position: Professor of Technology & Society
Email: mcstay@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1248 382740
- 2023
- Published
Automating Empathy: Decoding Technologies that Gauge Intimate Life
McStay, A., 22 Nov 2023, Oxford: OUP.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
- Published
Automating empathy: overview, technologies, criticism
McStay, A. & Bakir, V., 14 Nov 2023, Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar, p. 656-669Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- Published
Replika in the Metaverse: the moral problem with empathy in ‘It from Bit’
McStay, A., Nov 2023, In: AI and Ethics. 3, 4, p. 1433-1445 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
The Metaverse: Andrew McStay’s Responses to Cody Turner
McStay, A., 25 Oct 2023, In: Philosophy & Technology. 36, 4 p., 72.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- E-pub ahead of print
Blurring the moral limits of data markets: biometrics, emotion and data dividends
Bakir, V., Laffer, A. & McStay, A., 12 Aug 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: AI & Society.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Human-first, please: Assessing citizen views and industrial ambition for emotional AI in recommender systems
Bakir, V., Laffer, A. & McStay, A., 3 Jul 2023, In: Surveillance and Society. 21, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
The Metaverse: Surveillant Physics, Virtual Realist Governance, and the Missing Commons
McStay, A., 2 Mar 2023, In: Philosophy & Technology. 36, 1, 26 p., 13.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods: How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 17 Jan 2023, Palgrave Macmillan. 280 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
- 2022
- Published
Misinformation and trusted voices: Addressing false information online via provision of authoritative information: Why dialling down emotion is part of the answer
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 12 Oct 2022, 7 p. UK Parliament.Research output: Other contribution
- Published
In cars (are we really safest of all?): Interior sensing and emotional opacity
McStay, A. & Urquhart, L., Sept 2022, In: International Review of Law, Computers & Technology. 36, 3, p. 470-493 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Automated empathy in education: benefits, harms, debates
McStay, A., 2022, Education Data Futures. 5RightsFoundationResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- 2021
- Published
Emotional AI, Ethics, and Japanese Spice: Contributing Community, Wholeness, Sincerity, and Heart
McStay, A., Dec 2021, In: Philosophy & Technology. 34, 4, p. 1781-1802Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Emotional artificial intelligence in children’s toys and devices: Ethics, governance and practical remedies
McStay, A. & Rosner, G., 15 Mar 2021, In: Big Data and Society. 8, 1, 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2020
- Published
Empathic Media, Emotional AI, and the Optimization of Disinformation
McStay, A. & Bakir, V., 3 Sept 2020, Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means. Boler, M. & Davis, E. (eds.). Routledge, p. 263-279Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
- Published
CULTURE CHANGE: Incentivise political campaigners to run civil and informative election campaigns.
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 21 Jan 2020, UK Parliament, (APPG on Electoral Campaigning Transparency).Research output: Working paper
- Published
Emotional AI, soft biometrics and the surveillance of emotional life: An unusual consensus on privacy
McStay, A., 2020, In: Big Data and Society. 7, 1, 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2019
- Published
Against Opacity, Outrage & Deception: Towards an ethical code of conduct for transparent, explainable, civil & informative digital political campaigns.
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 Dec 2019, UK Parliament.Research output: Working paper
- Published
Emotional AI and EdTech: Serving the Public Good?
McStay, A., 6 Nov 2019, In: Learning, Media and Technology. 45, 3, p. 270-283Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
‘This time with feeling?’ Assessing EU data governance implications of out of home appraisal based emotional AI
McStay, A. & Urquhart, L., 7 Oct 2019, In: First Monday. 24, 10Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Datafied Bearbaiting and Emotional AI: Anticipating the Quantified Jeremy Kyle Show Submission to DCMS Committee Inquiry into Reality TV
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 2019, UK Parliament, (DCMS).Research output: Working paper
- 2018
- Published
Emotional AI: The Rise of Empathic Media
McStay, A., 9 Jun 2018, SAGE Publications Ltd. 248 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
- Published
The Sorry Tale of British Journalism and our Right to Privacy
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 22 Mar 2018, 9 p. London : UK Parliament.Research output: Other contribution
- Published
The Significance of AdTech: Programmatic Platforms, Identity and Moments
McStay, A., 18 Mar 2018, The Advertising Handbook. Hardy, J., Powell, H. & Macrury, I. (eds.). 4th ed. Routledge, p. 88-101Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- Published
Fake News and the Economy of Emotions: Problems, Causes, Solutions
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 2018, In: Digital Journalism. 6, 2, p. 154-175Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2017
- Published
An ethical intervention into Conscious Cities
McStay, A., 31 Jul 2017, In: Conscious Cities Journal. 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review