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Multidisciplinary perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the law
This open access book presents an interdisciplinary, multi-authored, edited collection of chapters on Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) and the Law. AI technology has come to play a central role in the modern data economy. Through a combination of increased computing power, the growing availability of data and the advancement of algorithms, AI has now become an umbrella term for some of the most transformational technological breakthroughs of this age. The importance of AI stems from both the opportunities that it offers and the challenges that it entails. While AI applications hold the promise of economic growth and efficiency gains, they also create significant risks and uncertainty. The potential and perils of AI have thus come to dominate modern discussions of technology and ethics – and although AI was initially allowed to largely develop without guidelines or rules, few would deny that the law is set to play a fundamental role in shaping the future of AI. As the debate over AI is far from over, the need for rigorous analysis has never been greater. This book thus brings together contributors from different fields and backgrounds to explore how the law might provide answers to some of the most pressing questions raised by AI. An outcome of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law and its interdisciplinary working group on Law and Artificial Intelligence, it includes contributions by leading scholars in the fields of technology, ethics and the law.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
An American Knightmare: Joker, Fandom, and Malicious Movie Meaning-Making
This monograph concerns the long-standing communication problem of how individuals can identify and resist the influence of unethical public speakers. Scholarship on the issue of what Socrates & Plato called the “Evil Lover” – i.e., the ill-intended rhetor – began with the Greek philosophers, but has carried into [post]Modern anxieties. For instance, the study of Nazi propaganda machines, and the rhetoric of Hitler himself, rejuvenated interest in the study of speech and communication in the U.S. and Europe. Whereas unscrupulous sophists used lectures and legal forums, and Hitler used a microphone, contemporary Evil Lovers primarily draw on new, internet-related tools to share their malicious influence. These new tools of influence are both more far-reaching and more subtle than the traditional practices of listening to a designated speaker appearing at an overtly political event. Rhetorician Ashley Hinck has recently noted the ways that popular culture – communication about texts which are commonly accessible and shared – are now significant sites through which citizens learn moral and political values. Accordingly, the talk of internet influencers who interpret popular texts for other fans has the potential to constitute strong persuasive power regarding ethics and civic responsibility.
The present work identifies and responds to a particular case example of popular culture text that has been recently, and frequently, leveraged in moral and civic discourses: Todd Phillips’ Joker. Specifically, this study takes a hermeneutic approach to understanding responses, especially those explicitly invoking political ideology, to Joker as a method of examining civic meaning-making. A special emphasis is placed on the online film criticisms of Joker from white nationalist movie fans, who clearly exemplify ways that media responses can be leveraged by unethical speakers (i.e., Evil Lovers) and subtly diffused. The study conveys that these racist movie fans can embed values related to “trolling,” incelism, and xenophobia into otherwise seemingly innocuous talk about film. While the sharing of such speech does not immediately mean its positive reception, this kind of communication yet constitutes a new and understudied attack on democratic values such as justice and equity. The case of white nationalist movie fan film criticism therefore reflects a particular brand of communicative strategy for contemporary Evil Lovers in communicating unethical messages under the covert guise of mundane movie talk
Relevance of parental monitoring strategies in explanation of externalising behaviour problems in adolescence: Mediation of parental knowledge
A process model of parental monitoring (PM) proposes that PM occurs in two distinct
stages: before the adolescent goes out and when they return home. Parental and
adolescent responses to monitoring interactions impact on future monitoring episodes.
Research suggests that passive PM strategies (e.g. child disclosure) correlate with
higher parental knowledge and less behavior problems. Self-reported measures were
used on a sample of 507 Belgrade secondary school students (42.1% male) to examine
the mediating effect (mediation analysis using JASP) of parental knowledge (the Scale
of Parental Monitoring) on the relationship of PM strategies (Child Disclosure, Parental
Solicitation and Parental Control) (the Scale of Parental Monitoring) with externalising
problems (Aggressive and Rule-Breaking Behaviour) (ASEBA, YSR). The research results
show that Parental Knowledge mediate the relation of Child Disclosure and RuleBreaking Behaviour (z = -6.544, p < .001) and Parental Control and Rule-Breaking
Behaviour (z =-3.770, p< .001). No direct link between Parental Control and RuleBreaking Behavior, as well as Parental Solicitation and Rule-Breaking Behavior were
established. Full mediation of the link between Child Disclosure and Aggressive Behavior by Parental Knowledge is found (total indirect effect z = -4.050, p < .001). The research
results were discussed in the context of the relevance of the PM strategies for greater
parental knowledge and prevention of externalising problems in adolescence
New perspectives on A.I. in sentencing. Human decision-making between risk assessment tools and protection of humans rights.
The aim of this thesis is to investigate a field that until a few years ago was foreign to and distant from the penal system. The purpose of this undertaking is to account for the role that technology could plays in the Italian Criminal Law system. More specifically, this thesis attempts to scrutinize a very intricate phase of adjudication. After deciding on the type of an individual's liability, a judge must decide on the severity of the penalty. This type of decision implies a prognostic assessment that looks to the future. It is precisely in this field and in prognostic assessments that, as has already been anticipated in the United, instruments and processes are inserted in the pre-trial but also in the decision-making phase. In this contribution, we attempt to describe the current state of this field, trying, as a matter of method, to select the most relevant or most used tools. Using comparative and qualitative methods, the uses of some of these instruments in the supranational legal system are analyzed.
Focusing attention on the Italian system, an attempt was made to investigate the nature of the element of an individual's ‘social dangerousness’ (pericolosità sociale) and capacity to commit offences, types of assessments that are fundamental in our system because they are part of various types of decisions, including the choice of the best sanctioning treatment. It was decided to turn our attention to this latter field because it is believed that the judge does not always have the time, the means and the ability to assess all the elements of a subject and identify the best 'individualizing' treatment in order to fully realize the function of Article 27, paragraph 3 of the Constitution
Vagueness Markers in Italian
Moving from a broad socio-pragmatic perspective, this study analyses how speakers of different ages use a class of items and constructions that codify intentional vagueness in Italian.
Items as un po’ ‘a bit’, tipo ‘kind’, diciamo ‘let us say’, così ‘so’, e cose del genere ‘and things like that’, or cosa ‘thing’ constitute a class of linguistically heterogeneous means that often function in conversation as vagueness markers, i.e. elements by which speakers signal that their knowledge or communication are somehow only tentative, approximate and vague. Their use does not depend on language systemic factors, but is the result of a, more or less conscious, choice of speakers to enhance conversation for different reasons, which include facilitating the flow of conversation, signifying a vague categorization, and, eventually, being polite.
Operating at the pragmatic level, vagueness markers represent elements that are readily available to speakers’ choices and contribute to characterize individual and generational discourse styles. Through a corpus-based analysis of listeners’ phone-ins to a Milan radio station, this study investigates how vagueness markers are used by speakers of different ages in 1976 and in 2010, and how Italian discourse styles have evolved in the last forty years
Relevance of parental monitoring strategies in explanation of externalising behaviour problems in adolescence: Mediation of parental knowledge
A process model of parental monitoring (PM) proposes that PM occurs in two distinct
stages: before the adolescent goes out and when they return home. Parental and
adolescent responses to monitoring interactions impact on future monitoring episodes.
Research suggests that passive PM strategies (e.g. child disclosure) correlate with
higher parental knowledge and less behavior problems. Self-reported measures were
used on a sample of 507 Belgrade secondary school students (42.1% male) to examine
the mediating effect (mediation analysis using JASP) of parental knowledge (the Scale
of Parental Monitoring) on the relationship of PM strategies (Child Disclosure, Parental
Solicitation and Parental Control) (the Scale of Parental Monitoring) with externalising
problems (Aggressive and Rule-Breaking Behaviour) (ASEBA, YSR). The research results
show that Parental Knowledge mediate the relation of Child Disclosure and RuleBreaking Behaviour (z = -6.544, p < .001) and Parental Control and Rule-Breaking
Behaviour (z =-3.770, p< .001). No direct link between Parental Control and RuleBreaking Behavior, as well as Parental Solicitation and Rule-Breaking Behavior were
established. Full mediation of the link between Child Disclosure and Aggressive Behavior by Parental Knowledge is found (total indirect effect z = -4.050, p < .001). The research
results were discussed in the context of the relevance of the PM strategies for greater
parental knowledge and prevention of externalising problems in adolescence
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A cross-disciplinary investigation of subject tutor feedback: lessons for the EAP practitioner
Studies have demonstrated that academic disciplines can show considerable variation not just in
terms of the language forms and structures used, but also in relation to other disciplinary practices,
such as the way in which knowledge claims are made and arguments developed (e.g. Lea & Street
1998; Hyland 2013a). Adopting a critical pragmatic approach (Harwood & Hadley 2004), this study
first explores variation in what subject tutors from four different disciplines focus on in their written
feedback. The data comprises feedback provided on 54 postgraduate assignments drawn from
modules in Creative Industries, Biological Sciences, Child Studies, and Applied Linguistics, as well as
interviews with each module convener. MaxQDA qualitative software is used to conduct a content
analysis of the data. The software not only assists with the coding and categorization of the data
leading to the development of a categorization framework, but also enables a search of specific
overlapping codes and a corpus search of lexical items to explore the findings still further.
The second research question sets out to explore feedback from an alternative perspective, that of
the learner. Studies investigating students’ satisfaction with feedback continue to paint a pessimistic
picture (e.g., O’Donovan 2020; Clegg & Bryan 2019), reflecting the relatively low satisfaction rates with
feedback and assessment in national student surveys (NSS 2021; PTES 2020). The chosen research
design to address this second question draws on the method adopted by Winstone et al., (2016)
whereby prior research surveying students’ perceptions of feedback is used to generate a list of valued
feedback qualities as a methodological point of reference with which to explore the alignment
between actual tutor practice and students’ views of effective feedback.
The investigation of feedback from these four modules does not represent a sample from which
generalisations can be drawn, since commentary provided on students’ work comprises just a small
part of a complex intervention (Boud & Molloy 2013). However, examining findings through contrast
of disciplines can shed additional light on what subject tutors from different faculties value in a text,
and therein assist the writing practitioner when identifying priorities of EAP provision across different
disciplines. This investigation, for example, reports on differences in the extent and nature of
criticality and contestation across disciplines and genres, how the rhetorical value placed on ‘clarity’
is consistent across all faculties, and how commentary addressing other aspects of student writing,
such as register and language, is absent. With respect to the alignment between actual tutor practice
and students’ views of effective feedback, this study finds that, by and large, tutor commentary does
match students’ expections in regard to the qualities desired in feedback
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