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The metaverse seems to be on everybody's lips - and yet, very few
people can actually explain what it means or why it is important.
This book aims to fill the gap from an interdisciplinary
perspective informed by law and media and communications studies.
Going beyond the optimism emanating from technology companies and
venture capitalists, the authors critically evaluate the
antecedents and the building blocks of the metaverse, the design
and regulatory challenges that need to be solved, and commercial
opportunities that are yet to be fully realised. While the
metaverse is poised to open new possibilities and perspectives, it
will also be a dangerous place - one ripe with threats ranging from
disinformation to intellectual property theft to sexual harassment.
Hence, the book also offers a useful guide to the legal and
political governance issues ahead while also contextualising them
within the broader domain of governance and regulation of digital
technologies.
This book examines the use and potential impact of deepfakes, a
type of synthetic computer-generated media, primarily images and
videos, capable of both creating artificial representations of
non-existent individuals and showing actual individuals doing
things they did not do. As such, deepfakes pose an obvious threat
of manipulation and, unsurprisingly, have been the subject of a
great deal of alarmism in both the news media and academic
articles. Hence, this book sets out to critically evaluate
potential threats by analyzing human susceptibility to manipulation
and using that as a backdrop for a discussion of actual and likely
uses of deepfakes. In contrast to the usual threat narrative, this
book will put forward a multi-sided picture of deepfakes, exploring
their potential and that of adjacent technologies for creative use
in domains ranging from film and advertisement to painting. The
challenges posed by deepfakes are further evaluated with regard to
present or forthcoming legislation and other regulatory measures.
Finally, deepfakes are placed within a broader cultural and
philosophical context, focusing primarily on posthumanist thought.
Therefore, this book is a must-read for researchers, students, and
practitioners of political science and other disciplines,
interested in a better understanding of deepfakes.
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