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Title: Terms of entanglement: a posthumanist reading of Terms of Service.
Authors: Özçetin, Seda1 (AUTHOR) seda.ozcetin@umu.se, Wiltse, Heather1 (AUTHOR)
Source: Human-Computer Interaction. 2025, Vol. 40 Issue 1-4, p171-194. 24p.
Subjects: Design failures, Design services, Service design, Privacy, Symptoms
Abstract: Contemporary connected things entail ongoing relations between producers, end users, and other actors characterized by ongoing updates and production of data about and through use. These relations are currently governed by Terms of Service (ToS) and related policy documents, which are known to be mostly ignored beyond the required interaction of ticking a box to indicate consent. This seems to be a symptom of failure to design for effectively mediating ongoing relations among multiple stakeholders involving multiple forms of value generation. In this paper, we use ToS as an entrance point to explore design practices for democratic data governance. Drawing on posthuman perspectives, we make three posthuman design moves exploring entanglements, decentering, and co-performance in relation to Terms of Service. Through these explorations we begin to sketch a space for design to engage with democratic data governance through a practice of what we call revealing design that is aimed at meaningfully making visible these complex networked relations in actionable ways. This approach is meant to open alternative possible trajectories that could be explored for design to enable genuine democratic data governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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