<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Publications | Andrew McStay</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/</link><atom:link href="https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Publications</description><generator>HugoBlox Kit (https://hugoblox.com)</generator><language>en-us</language><image><url>https://andrewmcstay.org/media/icon_hu_da05098ef60dc2e7.png</url><title>Publications</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/</link></image><item><title>Weaponised Empathy: AI Scams and the Nigeria–UK Response</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/weaponised-empathy-ai-scams/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/weaponised-empathy-ai-scams/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Do AI Companions Understand? Most UK Teens Say Yes</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/ai-companions-uk-teens/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/ai-companions-uk-teens/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Soft law for unintentional empathy: addressing the governance gap in emotion-recognition AI technologies</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/soft-law-unintentional-empathy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/soft-law-unintentional-empathy/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Move fast and break people? Ethics, companion apps, and the case of Character.ai</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/move-fast-and-break-people/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/move-fast-and-break-people/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Emulated Empathy: Can Risks Be Countered by a Soft-Law Standard?</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/emulated-empathy-can-risks-be-countered-by-a-soft-law-standa/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/emulated-empathy-can-risks-be-countered-by-a-soft-law-standa/</guid><description/></item><item><title>The Moral Threshold of AI Companionship</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/moral-threshold-ai-companionship/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/moral-threshold-ai-companionship/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Blurring the moral limits of data markets: biometrics, emotion and data dividends</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/blurring-the-moral-limits-of-data-markets-biometrics-emotion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/blurring-the-moral-limits-of-data-markets-biometrics-emotion/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Combatting the Digital Influence Industry Within Surveillance Capitalism</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/combatting-the-digital-influence-industry-within-surveillanc/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/combatting-the-digital-influence-industry-within-surveillanc/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Guarding Against Automated Empathy Attacks on Ontological Security</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/guarding-against-automated-empathy-attacks-on-ontological-se/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/guarding-against-automated-empathy-attacks-on-ontological-se/</guid><description/></item><item><title>The hidden influence: exploring presence in human-synthetic interactions through ghostbots</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/the-hidden-influence-exploring-presence-in-human-synthetic-i/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/the-hidden-influence-exploring-presence-in-human-synthetic-i/</guid><description/></item><item><title>The Metaverse: Andrew McStay’s Responses to Cody Turner</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/the-metaverse-andrew-mcstays-responses-to-cody-turner/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/the-metaverse-andrew-mcstays-responses-to-cody-turner/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Automating Empathy: Decoding Technologies that Gauge Intimate Life</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/automating-empathy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/automating-empathy/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Automating empathy: overview, technologies, criticism</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/automating-empathy-overview-technologies-criticism/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/automating-empathy-overview-technologies-criticism/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Replika in the Metaverse: the moral problem with empathy in ‘It from Bit’</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/replika-in-the-metaverse-the-moral-problem-with-empathy-in-i/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/replika-in-the-metaverse-the-moral-problem-with-empathy-in-i/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Human-First, Please: Assessing Citizen Views and Industrial Ambition for Emotional AI in Recommender Systems</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/human-first-please-assessing-citizen-views-and-industrial-am/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/human-first-please-assessing-citizen-views-and-industrial-am/</guid><description/></item><item><title>The Metaverse: Surveillant Physics, Virtual Realist Governance, and the Missing Commons</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/the-metaverse-surveillant-physics-virtual-realist-governance/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/the-metaverse-surveillant-physics-virtual-realist-governance/</guid><description/></item><item><title>In cars (are we really safest of all?): interior sensing and emotional opacity</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/in-cars-are-we-really-safest-of-all-interior-sensing-and-emo/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/in-cars-are-we-really-safest-of-all-interior-sensing-and-emo/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Emotional AI, Ethics, and Japanese Spice: Contributing Community, Wholeness, Sincerity, and Heart</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/emotional-ai-ethics-and-japanese-spice-contributing-communit/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/emotional-ai-ethics-and-japanese-spice-contributing-communit/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Emotional artificial intelligence in children’s toys and devices: Ethics, governance and practical remedies</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/emotional-artificial-intelligence-in-childrens-toys-and-devi/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/emotional-artificial-intelligence-in-childrens-toys-and-devi/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Emotional AI, soft biometrics and the surveillance of emotional life: An unusual consensus on privacy</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/emotional-ai-soft-biometrics-and-the-surveillance-of-emotion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/emotional-ai-soft-biometrics-and-the-surveillance-of-emotion/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Emotional AI and EdTech: serving the public good?</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/emotional-ai-and-edtech-serving-the-public-good/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/emotional-ai-and-edtech-serving-the-public-good/</guid><description/></item><item><title>‘This time with feeling?’ Assessing EU data governance implications of out of home appraisal based emotional AI</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/this-time-with-feeling-assessing-eu-data-governance-implicat/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/this-time-with-feeling-assessing-eu-data-governance-implicat/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Emotional AI: The Rise of Empathic Media</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/emotional-ai-the-rise-of-empathic-media/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/emotional-ai-the-rise-of-empathic-media/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Digital advertising and adtech</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/digital-advertising-and-adtech/</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/digital-advertising-and-adtech/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Fake News and The Economy of Emotions</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/fake-news-and-the-economy-of-emotions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/fake-news-and-the-economy-of-emotions/</guid><description/></item><item><title>An Ethical Intervention into Conscious Cities</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/an-ethical-intervention-into-conscious-cities/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/an-ethical-intervention-into-conscious-cities/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Quantifying the Emotional Self</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/quantifying-the-emotional-self/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/quantifying-the-emotional-self/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Introduction to Special Theme Veillance and transparency: A critical examination of mutual watching in the post-Snowden, Big Data era</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/introduction-to-special-theme-veillance-and-transparency-a-c/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/introduction-to-special-theme-veillance-and-transparency-a-c/</guid><description/></item><item><title>3.1 Micro-Moments, Liquidity, Intimacy and Automation: Developments in Programmatic Ad-tech</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/31-micro-moments-liquidity-intimacy-and-automation-developme/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/31-micro-moments-liquidity-intimacy-and-automation-developme/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Privacy and the Media</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/privacy-and-the-media/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/privacy-and-the-media/</guid><description/></item><item><title>The Mood of Information in an Age of Empathic Media</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/the-mood-of-information-in-an-age-of-empathic-media/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/the-mood-of-information-in-an-age-of-empathic-media/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Empathic media and advertising: Industry, policy, legal and citizen perspectives (the case for intimacy)</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/empathic-media-and-advertising-industry-policy-legal-and-cit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/empathic-media-and-advertising-industry-policy-legal-and-cit/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Digital Advertising (Second Edition)</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/digital-advertising-second-edition/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/digital-advertising-second-edition/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Theorising Transparency Arrangements: Assessing Interdisciplinary Academic and Multi-Stakeholder Positions on Transparency in the post-Snowden Leak Era</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/theorising-transparency-arrangements-assessing-interdiscipli/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/theorising-transparency-arrangements-assessing-interdiscipli/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Media Studies</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/media-studies/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/media-studies/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Privacy and Philosophy</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/privacy-and-philosophy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/privacy-and-philosophy/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Creativity and Advertising</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/creativity-and-advertising/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/creativity-and-advertising/</guid><description/></item><item><title>I consent: An analysis of the Cookie Directive and its implications for UK behavioral advertising</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/i-consent-an-analysis-of-the-cookie-directive-and-its-implic/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/i-consent-an-analysis-of-the-cookie-directive-and-its-implic/</guid><description/></item><item><title>The Mood of Information: A Critique of Online Behavioural Advertising</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/the-mood-of-information-a-critique-of-online-behavioural-adv/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/the-mood-of-information-a-critique-of-online-behavioural-adv/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Digital Advertising</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/digital-advertising/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/digital-advertising/</guid><description/></item><item><title>When the Script Runs Out, … What Happens to the Polarized War Body?</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/when-the-script-runs-out-what-happens-to-the-polarized-war-b/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/when-the-script-runs-out-what-happens-to-the-polarized-war-b/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Regulating the Suicide Bomber: A Critical Examination of Viral Advertising and Simulations of Self-Broadcasting.</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/regulating-the-suicide-bomber-a-critical-examination-of-vira/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/regulating-the-suicide-bomber-a-critical-examination-of-vira/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Trust, Data-Mining and Instantaneity: The Creation of the Online Accountable Consumer</title><link>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/trust-data-mining-and-instantaneity-the-creation-of-the-onli/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://andrewmcstay.org/publications/trust-data-mining-and-instantaneity-the-creation-of-the-onli/</guid><description/></item><item><title>) Privacy, Online Advertising and Marketing Techniques: The Paradoxical Disappearance of the 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