The Fallacy of Informed Consent: Linguistic Markers of Assent and Contractual Design in Some E-User Agreements
Por favor, use este identificador para citar o enlazar este ítem:
http://hdl.handle.net/10045/54178
Título: | The Fallacy of Informed Consent: Linguistic Markers of Assent and Contractual Design in Some E-User Agreements |
---|---|
Autor/es: | Brunon-Ernst, Anne |
Palabras clave: | Contract design | Choice architecture | Textual markers | Peri-textual markers | Linguistic markers |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Filología Inglesa |
Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
Editor: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa |
Cita bibliográfica: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses. 2015, 28: 37-58. doi:10.14198/raei.2015.28.03 |
Resumen: | Orthodox contract law theory assumes that parties agree to the terms of a contract before entering into an agreement. However, recent factual evidence points towards the fact that consumers do not systematically read, and thus become informed of, the terms of a contract. Academics are asking for mandatory frameworks to ensure that informed consent is indeed sought and given by parties to a contract. The present study looks into the user agreements of four online companies that provide a marketplace for the sale of goods or free provision of services by other sellers and/or users (Ebay, Tripadvisor, YouTube and Amazon). The aim is firstly to identify the lexical/textual markers and peri-textual features of agreement in order to highlight the fallacy of informed consent. Secondly, the paper lists textual and peri-textual alternative contractual design (here called counter-design) in online user agreement. In so doing, contractual design features are distinguished from nudges. Suggested counter-design features help make informed consent effective. |
URI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2015.28.03 | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/54178 |
ISSN: | 0214-4808 | 2171-861X (Internet) |
DOI: | 10.14198/raei.2015.28.03 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses |
Revisión científica: | si |
Aparece en las colecciones: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses - 2015, No. 28 |
Archivos en este ítem:
Archivo | Descripción | Tamaño | Formato | |
---|---|---|---|---|
RAEI_28_03.pdf | 642,11 kB | Adobe PDF | Abrir Vista previa | |
Todos los documentos en RUA están protegidos por derechos de autor. Algunos derechos reservados.