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
- Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
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A qualitative approach to understanding audience's perceptions of creativity in online advertising.
McStay, A., 1 Jan 2010, In: Qualitative Report. 15, 1, p. 37-58Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An ethical intervention into Conscious Cities
McStay, A., 31 Jul 2017, In: Conscious Cities Journal. 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Assessing interdisciplinary academic and mult-istakeholder positions on transparency in the post-Snowden leak era
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 1 Dec 2015, In: Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. 12, 3/4, p. 25-38Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Assessing interdisciplinary academic and multi-stakeholder positions on transparency in the post-Snowden leak era
Bakir, V. & McStay, A., 2015, In: Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. 12, 3/4, p. 25-38Research 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Empathic media and advertising: Industry, policy, legal and citizen perspectives (the case for intimacy)
McStay, A., 23 Nov 2016, In: Big Data and Society. 3, 2, p. 1-11 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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
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I consent: An analysis of the Cookie Directive and its implications for UK behavioral advertising
McStay, A., 30 Sept 2012, In: New media and society.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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Introduction to Special Theme Veillance and transparency: A critical examination of mutual watching in the post-Snowden, Big Data era
Bakir, V., Feilzer, M. & McStay, A., 15 Mar 2017, In: Big Data and Society. 4, 1, p. 1-5Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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On manipulation by emotional AI: UK adults’ views and governance implications
Bakir, V., Laffer, A., McStay, A., Miranda, D. & Urquhart, L., 7 Jun 2024, In: Frontiers in Sociology. 9, 1339834.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Profiling Phorm: an autopoietic approach to the audience-as-commodity.
McStay, A., 1 Jan 2011, In: Surveillance and Society. 8, 3, p. 310-322Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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
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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
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The hidden influence: Exploring presence in human-synthetic interactions through ghostbots
McStay, A., 27 Jul 2024, In: Ethics and Information Technology. 26, 48.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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‘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
- Chapter › Research › Not peer-reviewed
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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
- Chapter › Research › Peer-reviewed
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Automated empathy in education: benefits, harms, debates
McStay, A., 2022, Education Data Futures. 5RightsFoundationResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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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