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    Science fiction is what got me into the field. Elemente der Popkultur als Vermittlungsstrategien im Diskurs um künstliche Intelligenz.
    von Menschen Und Maschinen. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Auf Das Verhältnis von Gesellschaft Und Technik in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart Und Zukunft. 2020.
    If you look at the answers of AI scientists to the question of how they came to research artificial intelligence, you quickly notice something: Many scientists refer to their fascination with the topic, which usually goes back a long way - prompted by movies, comics, and the like. Narratives thus seem to play a not entirely negligible role for AI scientists. This may seem intuitively convincing, but are these not ultimately biographical memories and subjective assessments of the individual scien…Read more
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    All of Your Choices Matter. Charakterbildungsrelevante Entscheidungen in Videospielen am Beispiel von Telltales The Walking Dead
    In Vom Binge Watching zum Binge Thinking. Untersuchungen im Wechselspiel zwischen Wissenschaften und Popkultur. pp. 81-100. 2019.
    This paper is devoted to the concept of decisions in video games. In doing so, I start from the frequently applied criticism that they are irrelevant, since the course of the game is almost identical regardless of the individual decision. I follow this criticism with examples from "Telltale's The Walking Dead - Season Two" and work out a certain understanding of decisions in video games that characterizes them as relevant to the outcome. In contrast, using Robert Kane's theory of free will, I de…Read more
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    Video games have long been an established medium of popular culture. Like other elements of popular culture, they play a major role in the everyday lives of many people - especially children and young adults - and even form part of their own identity and sense of belonging to certain groups. This automatically leads to the fact that the recipients take up the contents of games, possibly adopt concepts that are presented in them, and thereby gain knowledge about the world as a whole. The fact tha…Read more