The new digital face of the consumerist mediator: the case of the ‘Yuka’ mobile app

Soutjis, Bastien

doi:10.1080/17530350.2019.1603116

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“…Nutrition-related smartphone apps have also gained popularity 39 . These apps serve a multitude of functions, from helping users to track their weight and calorie intake, to offering nutritional advice, to aiding shoppers in the interpretation of food labels 39 – 42 . The French app ‘Yuka’ enables users to scan product barcodes and see a consumer-friendly interpretation of the information (i.e., nutrition quality, manufacturing methods, and alerts to the presence of potentially harmful additives), and to compare product information side by side 42 .…”

Section: Games and Appsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The app also crowdsources content; users can add to the database if a product is not yet included. Crowdsourcing increases engagement and reduces some burden on developers in terms of collecting raw data (i.e., information printed on food packaging) 42 .…”

Section: Games and Appsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To gain such benefits, however, food safety and nutrition organisations must first consider the potential high cost of production and design complexity, promotions and/or the provision of incentives/rewards to encourage participation or usage 11 . Furthermore, if the app involves interactive features, such as two-way communication and open databases (which allow users to update or add information), it can be challenging to manage and process this data at scale 42 .…”

Section: Games and Appsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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#Healthy: smart digital food safety and nutrition communication strategies—a critical commentary

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This paper explores how food safety and nutrition organisations can harness the power of search engines, games, apps, social media, and digital analytics tools to craft broad-reaching and engaging digital communications. We start with search engines, showing how organisations can identify popular food safety and nutrition queries, facilitating the creation of timely and in-demand content. To ensure this content is discoverable by search engines, we cover several non-technical aspects of search engine optimisation (SEO). We next explore the potential of games, apps, social media, and going viral for reaching and engaging the public, and how digital data-based tools can be used to optimise communications. Throughout, we draw on examples not only from Europe and North America, but also China. While we are enthusiastic about the benefits of digital communications, we recognise that they are not without their drawbacks and challenges. To help organisations evaluate whether a given digital approach is appropriate for their objectives, we end each section with a discussion of limitations. We conclude with a discussion of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the practical, philosophical, and policy challenges associated with communicating food safety and nutrition information digitally.

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“…Case-studies, however, emerged in the last two years examining certain applications(Fairtrade, Shopgun, Greenguide, Yuka), but they tend not to aim at formulating arguments on an abstract level; they do not create a framework for a type of applications. Hansson's article explores three Swedish smartphone applications (Fairtrade app, Shopgun, and GreenGuide) that promote 'ethical' consumption [19], more recently Soutjis wrote a detailed analysis of the fashionable Yuka application [41], that claims to recommend healthier products.…”

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“…Later, Yuka started also developing their own database. The widespread use of the application by millions of customers in France and the neighbouring countries has raised several comments and criticism from the food industry, nutritionists, the media, and the research community [41,45]:…”

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Ethics of Food Recommender Applications

Karpati

Najjar

Ambrossio

2020

Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

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The recent unprecedented popularity of food recommender applications has raised several issues related to the ethical, societal and legal implications of relying on these applications. In this paper, in order to assess the relevant ethical issues, we rely on the emerging principles across the AI&Ethics community and define them tailored context specifically. Considering the popular Food Recommender Systems (henceforth F-RS) in the European market cannot be regarded as personalised F-RS, we show how merely this lack of feature shifts the relevance of the focal ethical concerns. We identify the major challenges and propose a scheme for how explicit ethical agendas should be explained. We also argue how a multi-stakeholder approach is indispensable to ensure producing long-term benefits for all stakeholders. After proposing eight ethical desiderata points for F-RS, we present a case-study and assess it based on our proposed desiderata points.

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“Digital Assistants” in the Consumer Society: Global Trends and Vectors of Russia’s Development

Pankratov

Pankratova

Gavrilov

2020

"Smart Technologies" for Society, State and Economy

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the dominating directions and spheres of applications of AI and robotics in everyday practices of the modern Russian society. Emphasis is made on the demand for these innovative systems in various segments of the existing "consumer society" at the national and global levels. The results of theoretical and empirical studies, which determine real and potential risks and threats that emerge in the process of the Russian society's digitalization, are interpreted. The authors study subject-object and service characteristics of "new actors" -"digital assistants"in satisfaction of the needs of various groups of population and substantiate the main consumer trends with representatives of various generation groups and their readiness and abilityat the individual and group levelsfor the positive life activities in the conditions of a new digital culture formation. The specifics of implementation of the Fourth industrial revolution -Industry 4.0in the Russian Federation are determined. Its essence consists in implementation of technical and technological (cybernetic) systems that provide human with the highest living standards and consumer comfort. The authors use theoretical conclusions of the researchers who specialize in the sphere of philosophy of technology and the theory of intellectual systems, the concept of institutionalization, factors of structural transformations of the modern consumer society, and provision of national and global security. Keywords: Digital technologies Á AI Á Consumer society Á Russia Á Priorities Á Threats JEL Code: O33 technological change Á Choices and consequences Á Diffusion processes Á D6 welfare economics

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The new digital face of the consumerist mediator: the case of the ‘Yuka’ mobile app

Cited by 23 publications

References 33 publications

#Healthy: smart digital food safety and nutrition communication strategies—a critical commentary

#Healthy: smart digital food safety and nutrition communication strategies—a critical commentary

Ethics of Food Recommender Applications

“Digital Assistants” in the Consumer Society: Global Trends and Vectors of Russia’s Development

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