Uncertainty in cyber de-responsibilisation

Karen Renaud, Stephen Flowerday, Karl van der Schyff

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Abstract

The sociologist Norbert Elias argued that the ability to take responsibility is part of a 'civilizing process'. Neoliberal governments appear to agree with this, because they have 'responsibilised' their citizens in many domains. Pellandini-Simányi and Conte explain that the concept of responsibilisation refers to the assigning of responsibility to citizens and the social-cultural factors that persuade citizens to embrace those responsibilities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)13-19
Number of pages7
JournalComputer Fraud and Security
Volume2021
Issue number8
Early online date24 Aug 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Aug 2021

Funding

Karen Renaud is a Scottish computing scientist at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, working on all aspects of human-centred security and privacy. Her research has been funded by the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineers and the Fulbright Commission. She is particularly interested in deploying behavioural science techniques to improve security behaviours, and in encouraging end-user privacy-preserving behaviours. Her research approach is multi-disciplinary, essentially learning from other, more established, fields and harnessing methods and techniques from other disciplines to understand and influence cyber security behaviours.

Keywords

  • uncertainty
  • cyber
  • responsibilisation
  • de-responsibilisation
  • responsibility
  • responsible
  • cyber security

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