{"id":7493,"date":"2025-05-07T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=7493"},"modified":"2025-05-07T15:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:24:30","slug":"persuasive-technologies-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2025\/05\/07\/persuasive-technologies-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Persuasive Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"506\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2021\/05\/Pers1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2021\/05\/Pers1.jpg 506w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2021\/05\/Pers1-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From Wikipedia,&nbsp;<strong>Persuasive&nbsp;technologies<\/strong>&nbsp;are broadly defined as technologies designed to change attitudes or behaviors of the users through&nbsp;persuasion&nbsp;and social influence, but not necessarily through coercion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Good\u2019 examples of this strategy exist in the health profession, among others, to aid individuals in keep in keeping with a regimen that would be beneficial to their wellbeing. \u2018Bad\u2019 examples also proliferate, such as how persistent fake news on prevailing media channels can gradually shift collective opinions in asocial directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason this option is offered here is that Gartner (2021) has identified the \u201cInternet of Behaviours\u201d as a top ten technology (below), so it is important to examine critically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Opportunity Statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cultural, social and individual persuasion have been essential to humanity forever, including within education, so the potentials and pitfalls of digital persuasion are deeply relevant to the modern educator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/smarterwithgartner\/gartner-top-strategic-technology-trends-for-2021\/\">Gartner Top Ten Technologies 2021: Internet of Behaviours<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia,&nbsp;Persuasive&nbsp;technologies&nbsp;are broadly defined as technologies designed to change attitudes or behaviors of the users through&nbsp;persuasion&nbsp;and social influence, but not necessarily through coercion. \u2018Good\u2019 examples&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2025\/05\/07\/persuasive-technologies-5\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Persuasive Technologies<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emerging-markets","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7494,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493\/revisions\/7494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}