Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Governing Virtual Wonderland

Power, Rules, and Rebellion in the Metaverse

Av Mark Findlay, Noha L. Halim, Sofie Schönborn

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In this volume, young voices craft a fresh exploration of living and working in virtual worlds. Using Alice in Wonderland as a guiding metaphor, contributors address profound and urgent questions: Who am I online? Who decides what is possible in virtual worlds? How can these spaces be made safe, fair, and empowering? Through specially commissioned short essays and reflections, emerging voices with extensive experience of digital environments evaluate key challenges of governance and personhood within the metaverse. Drawing on diverse disciplinary insights, chapters investigate how design choices subtly function as constraints and possibilities, how identities transform across platforms and how communities build their own norms. Ultimately, the book emphasises the importance of treating the metaverse as a lived social space and prioritising the voices of its first-hand navigators. It outlines strategies for designing policies that protect individuals while simultaneously promoting agency, imagination and inclusion within virtual worlds like the metaverse, both now and in the future. Governing Virtual Wonderland is an essential read for scholars, students, and those interested in regulation and governance in the new digital age. It is also useful for those across the disciplines of technology and AI, law, political science, philosophy of data science and computer science.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2026-05-29
Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Förlag: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781035362073

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Edited by Mark Findlay, Distinguished Fellow, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and Honorary Professorial Fellow, Law School, University of Edinburgh, UK, Noha Lea Halim, Doctoral Candidate and Sofie Schönborn, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Governance, Technical University of Munich, Germany

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‘What would the metaverse look like if we could actively shape its governance? This book answers that question from every angle. It does so in a style that is refreshingly accessible, transforming a dry topic into something thrilling. It is a rare take on governance that excites me enough to feel optimistic about a responsible digital world. By using Alice’s journey through the (Wonder-) Metaverseland, the authors are able to explain rather complex, and quite frankly boring, concepts and aspects of tech governance into a fun and relatable story, making it accessible to both, younger and older generations. Although most of us grew up with Alice’s adventures, this new take on Wonderland and the intersection of the Metaverse and real life feel both fictional and startlingly realistic. Yet the innovative ideas proposed and debates showcased on how to govern such an old/new world often left me wondering how our digital world could look like if more young minds were in the shoes of many decision makers.

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