This essay aims at verifying the existence of a line of continuity between the artistic genre of the danse macabre and the legal implications of death in the historical evolution of the relationship between law and religion. Although the institution originated in medieval Europe and bears some similarities to rituals in different…
In today’s hyperconnected society, internet has profoundly transformed social interaction, identity formation, and public discourse. This paper examines the dual nature of digital networks: as spaces of emancipation and empowerment, but also as enablers of pathological and criminal phenomena. Particular attention is paid to social withdrawal (hikikomori) and online hate…
This article addresses compliance within the European regulatory framework, arguing for the need to move beyond traditional ontological models toward epistemological approaches to compliance-based analysis: what has been termed as a sematic turn. Static representations of legal norms are increasingly inadequate to capture the complexity of technologically mediated regulatory environments…
This article examines gamification as a normative technology that utilizes incentives to reconfigure metrics and reputations within non-game contexts. Starting from a revival of the magic circle theory, the contribution first reconsiders the liminal nature of play and subsequently investigates the intersections and links between gamification, nudging, and forms of…
