Nudging Choices Through Media

James E. Katz, Ph.D., Dr.h.c., is the Feld Professor of Emerging Media at Boston University, United States. Among his honors is the 2021 Frederick Williams Prize from the International Communication Association.Katie Schiepers is an Academic Administrator and former Division Administrator of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University, United States. She has co-edited Perceiving the Future through New Communication Technologies with Katz and Floyd (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). She holds a Master of Education and has also completed graduate studies in Classics and World Heritage Conservation.Juliet Floyd, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, United States. Among her recent books is Stanley Cavell’s Must We Mean What We Say? at Fifty (co-edited with Greg Chase and Sandra Laugier, 2021).

• 1.Introduction.- 2. Nudging and Freedom.- 3. Metaphors we nudge by.- 4. Can Nudges be Democratic?.- 5. Revisiting the Turing Test.- 6. Interview with Stephen Wolfram.- 7. Means vs. Outcomes.- 8. Nudging, positive and negative, on China’s Internet.- 9. Nudging choices through media.- 10. Building compliance, manufacturing nudges.- 11. The Emergence of the ’Cy-Mind’ through Human-Computer Interaction.- 12. Saying things with facts, or: sending messages through regulation.13. Conclusion: The troubling future of nudging choices through media for humanity.