Call for Papers
Paternalism, Nudging, and the Digital Sphere
Moral Philosophy and Politics (MOPP) special issue
https://www.mopp-journal.org/go-to-main-page/call-for-papers/
Submission deadline: January 15, 2020
Information technologies (broadly construed) provide corporations and governmental institutions with tools that enable them to push the behavior of their citizens/users into directions they consider “right”. For example, E-health-applications or smart homes might promote healthier or more sustainable lifestyles while the Chinese government currently experiments with implementing the so called digitally administered ‘Social Credit System’ with the aim of improving behavioral regulation of both, their citizens and businesses. In a similar vein, the information-architecture of e.g. Google`s search algorithms or of social media sites, such as Facebook, are suspected of influencing the formation of political opinions (i.e. ‘group-polarization’ as a negative example).
New information technologies might also change the way in which paternalistically motivated interferences are induced. In this context, the concept of ‘nudging’ has come to increased prominence in public policy circles ever since the Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Richard Thaler in 2017.… read more. “Call: Paternalism, Nudging, and the Digital Sphere issue of Moral Philosophy and Politics (MOPP)”