User Migration and the Exit Problem
Explains why users rarely leave harmful platforms even when alternatives exist, and what interoperability and federation could change.
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Tobacco, Seatbelts, and Food Safety: How Societies Learn to Regulate Design
Surveys public-health precedents to argue that attention-extraction platforms can be treated as design problems, not only user-responsibility problems.
Regulation as a Floor
Compares India’s IT Rules 2021 and DPDP Act 2023 with the EU DSA, UK OSA, and Australia’s eSafety framework. Regulation can curb harms but cannot alone make substance the easier path; design, business models, and public pressure matter too.
India in Global Context: The Attention Economy Is Not Only an Indian Story
Compares India with Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, the US, and China on screen time, platform concentration, and regulatory responses.
Age-Appropriate Design and Protecting Vulnerable Users
Argues for age-appropriate design defaults, friction, and verification to protect children, elderly users, and others who are especially vulnerable to extraction.
A Map of Levers
This synthesis article maps the actors and interventions that can redirect India's digital infrastructure toward substance—from individual habits and household rules to platform design, investor pressure, regulation, and civic accountability.
Designing for Substance: Platform Incentives and the Attention Economy
An exploration of how platform incentives could be redesigned to reward substance over extraction, from regulation and metrics to product alternatives like the fediverse.