Enabler: Ubiquitous availability

The digital afterlife industry offers avatars for a digital afterlife. The simulation of the deceased raises ethical questions with regard to mourning and remembering in data-economic contexts.

Mixed reality is increasingly being used in education and training, whereby important technological and pedagogical (design) decisions must be made in order to achieve sustainable training success.

Digital communities are based on algorithmically mediated social relationships in digital space. They enable flexible participation and intensive interaction and form a new dimension of communitization.

Online misogyny is embedded in existing political structures of discrimination and oppression and affects women who belong to minorities or historically disadvantaged groups with particular severity.

The digital world is not predetermined – software developers have a moral responsibility in designing it. Ethical engineering brings this into focus.

The promise of the metaverse is great, but it also raises data protection issues. The article highlights current developments and encourages reflection on virtual worlds and data protection.

“FoMo” refers to the fear of missing out on (socially) rewarding experiences during one’s absence. This is often associated with intensive social media use.

The article shows how companies can use crowdsourcing, crowdworking and crowdfunding to drive innovation and solve complex problems.

Examples from Estonia, the USA, India and Brazil show this: Political elections can certainly be digitized – in Germany, the main thing missing is a suitable organizational and governance structure.

The Fake Shop Detector is an AI that provides automated protection against online fraud. It measures the similarity of online shops to known fake shops and warns in real time using a traffic light system.