In the last days, there have been a lot of news about this company “Cambridge Analytica” (CA) “stealing” data from Facebook and manipulating the US citizens in order to get Donald Trump into the White House. CA used big data statistics to determine the pain points of each user, in order to send them the […]
The fear of being manipulated Many people fear that product placement can subliminally manipulate them against their will, because it is often hard to clearly identify it as advertising (Balasubramanian 1994; D’Astous and Chartier 2000; D’Astous and Séguin 1999; Gupta and Balasubramanian 2000; Gupta and Gould 1997; Morton and Friedman 2002). These concerns are amplified […]