S. Steinert
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Emotions and Digital Well-Being
On Social Media’s Emotional Affordances
Pistols, pills, pork and ploughs
The structure of technomoral revolutions
Investigating the conservatism-disgust paradox in reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic
A reexamination of the interrelations among political ideology, disgust sensitivity, and pandemic response
Research conducted on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) has grown considerably during the last decades. With the help of BCIs, users can (re)gain a wide range of functions. Our aim in this paper is to analyze the impact of BCIs on autonomy. To this end, we introduce three abili ...
Corona and value change
The role of social media and emotional contagion
People share their emotions on social media and evidence suggests that in times of crisis people are especially motivated to post emotional content. The current Coronavirus pandemic is such a crisis. The online sharing of emotional content during the Coronavirus crisis may con ...
Emotions, values and technology
Illuminating the blind spots
Responsible innovation and ethics of technology increasingly take emotions into consideration. Yet, there are still some crucial aspects of emotions that have not been addressed in the literature. In order to close this gap, we introduce these neglected aspects and discusses t ...
Unleashing the Constructive Potential of Emotions
Some Critical Comments on Risk, Technology and Moral Emotions by Sabine Roeser
Doing Things with Thoughts
Brain-Computer Interfaces and Disembodied Agency
Connecting human minds to various technological devices and applications through brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) affords intriguingly novel ways for humans to engage and interact with the world. Not only do BCIs play an important role in restorative medicine, they are also in ...
Wired Emotions
Ethical Issues of Affective Brain–Computer Interfaces
Ethical issues concerning brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) have already received a considerable amount of attention. However, one particular form of BCI has not received the attention that it deserves: Affective BCIs that allow for the detection and stimulation of affective st ...
Can scientific evidence prompt us to revise philosophical theories or folk theoretical accounts of phenomena of the mind? We will argue that it can—but only under the condition that they make a so-called ‘ontological commitment’ to something that is actually subject to empiric ...
Technology is a laughing matter
Bergson, the comic and technology
Art
Brought to You by Creative Machines
In this paper, I argue that machines can create works of art. My argument is based on an analysis of the so-called creative machines and focuses on technical functions and intentions. If my proposal is correct, then creative machines are technical artifacts with the proper fun ...