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Gamification, smarte Technologien und eine persistente digitale Erreichbarkeit führen dazu, dass immer mehr Lebensbereiche mit Aspekten von Spielen angereichert werden. Doch was zeichnet das Spiel eigentlich aus? Und ist es überhaupt möglich und ethisch legitim, das ganze Leben in ein Spiel zu verwandeln?Vor dem Hintergrund einer humanistischen Anthropologie, die dem Menschen zutraut und zugleich zumutet, selbst Autor*in des eigenen Lebens zu sein, wird Gamification als durchaus problematische Manipulationsstrategie beschrieben, die kaum etwas mit dem Spiel zu tun hat und deren Einsatz nur unter bestimmten Bedingungen ethisch legitim ist. Denn, verabschieden wir uns nicht ein Stück weit von unserem Menschsein, wenn wir uns zurücklehnen und unser Leben in die Hände gamifizierter Anwendungen und Systeme legen, die uns durch ihre Spielmechanismen und Algorithmen gewissermaßen darauf programmieren, erwünschte Verhaltensweisen an den Tag zu legen? Schließlich sollten wir als autonome Subjekte in der Lage sein, selbst herauszufinden und umzusetzen, was wir für richtig und erstrebenswert halten.

General ethics --- Ethik --- Bioethik --- Angewandte Ethik --- Medienethik --- Manipulation --- Freiheit --- Autonomie --- Spiele --- Spielen --- Digitalisierung --- Paternalismus --- Nudging --- ethics --- bioethics --- applied ethics --- media ethics --- manipulation --- autonomy --- persuasive technology --- games --- digital technologies --- play --- paternalism --- nudging

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This book addresses the key issues, challenges and implications arising out of unauthorised acts of character merchandising. It offers deep insights into the philosophical justifications for the protection of persona. The book examines what qualifies as a character and its legal rights, namely property rights, personality rights and publicity rights. In the absence of any explicit statutory protection of characters, this work provides new insights into how intellectual property laws can be used to prevent unauthorized character merchandising. It critically evaluates various tests introduced by courts to determine the copyrightability of characters. It also analyses the dicta of the different courts justifying the effective protection of the rights of publicity. Since there is no uniform standard for the recognition and protection of image rights, this book presents a global perspective and developments on the subject with the help of judicial decisions. Drawing on the diverse judicial treatments, it explores whether an exclusive legal approach is required to address the concerns that emerge from unauthorised character merchandising. The book is of immense interest for researchers, academicians, policy makers and practitioners who work in this area. For researchers and academicians, the book offers new insights on how IP laws can be used to prevent unauthorized exploitation of persona. For practitioners, it provides an effective and more consistent approach to the interpretation of international intellectual property instruments. For policymakers, the objectives of protecting the legal rights of characters, is of specific interest. The book will further be of interest to governmental organizations and NGOs who want to advance their lawful merchandising agendas.

Intellectual property --- Information technology --- Mass media --- Law in mass media. --- Mass media and crime. --- IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property. --- Media Law. --- Information Ethics. --- Media Ethics. --- Crime and the Media. --- Law and legislation. --- Moral and ethical aspects.

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“… The volume does a terrific job of raising the bar on pressing ethical questions about this deeply troubling topic.” - Eran Guter, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel. This book addresses the growing use of computerized systems to influence people’s decisions without their awareness, a significant but underappreciated sea-change in the way the world works. To assess these systems, this volume’s contributors explore the philosophical and ethical dimensions of algorithms that guide people’s behavior by nudging them toward choices preferred by systems architects. Particularly in an era of heightened awareness of bias and discrimination, these systems raise profound concerns about the morality of such activities. This volume brings together a diverse array of thinkers to critically examine these nudging systems. Not only are high-level perspectives presented, but so too are of those who use them on a day-to-day basis. While algorithmic nudging can produce benefits for users there are also many less-obvious costs to using such systems, costs that require examination and deliberation. This book is a major step towards delineating these concerns and suggesting ways to provide a sounder basis for future policies for algorithms. It should be of interest to system designers, public policymakers, scholars, and those who wonder more deeply about the nudges they receive from various websites and on their phones. James E. Katz, Ph.D., Dr.h.c., is the Feld Professor of Emerging Media at Boston University, United States. Among his honors is the 2021 Frederick Williams Prize from the International Communication Association. Katie Schiepers is an Academic Administrator and former Division Administrator of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University, United States. She has co-edited Perceiving the Future through New Communication Technologies with Katz and Floyd (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). She holds a Master of Education and has also completed graduate studies in Classics and World Heritage Conservation. Juliet Floyd, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, United States. Among her recent books is Stanley Cavell’s Must We Mean What We Say? at Fifty (co-edited with Greg Chase and Sandra Laugier, 2021). .

Economic policy and planning (general) --- Human rights --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Mass communications --- mensenrechten --- sociale media --- filosofie --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- Mass media—Moral and ethical aspects. --- Digital media. --- Technology—Philosophy. --- Political planning. --- Human rights. --- Media Ethics. --- Digital and New Media. --- Philosophy of Technology. --- Public Policy. --- Politics and Human Rights.