Being Human in the Digital World
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-38387-5 (ISBN)
Being Human in the Digital World is a collection of essays by prominent scholars from various disciplines exploring the impact of digitization on culture, politics, health, work, and relationships. The volume raises important questions about the future of human existence in a world where machine readability and algorithmic prediction are increasingly prevalent and offers new conceptual frameworks and vocabularies to help readers understand and challenge emerging paradigms of what it means to be human. Being Human in the Digital World is an invaluable resource for readers interested in the cultural, economic, political, philosophical, and social conditions that are necessary for a good digital life. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Beate Roessler is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of The Value of Privacy (2004) and Autonomy. An Essay on the Life Well-Lived (2021). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Valerie Steeves is a Professor in the Department of Criminology of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. She is the principal investigator of the eQuality Project, a multimillion-dollar project funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada researching young people's experiences online.
1. Introduction Beate Roessler and Valerie Steeves; Part I. Conceptualizing the Digital Human: 2. Platform city people David Murakami Wood; 3. Robots, humans, and their vulnerabilities Beate Roessler; 4. Cultural foundations for conserving human capacities in an era of generative artificial intelligence: toward a philosophico-literary critique of simulation Frank Pasquale; 5. Surveillance and human flourishing: pandemic challenges David Lyon; Part II. Living the Digital Life: 6. Is there an obligation to be machine readable? Solon Barocas, Margot Hanley and Helen Nissenbaum; 7. Carebots: gender, empire and the capacity to dissent Chloé S. Georas; 8. Networked communities and the algorithmic other Valerie Steeves; 9. The birth of code|body Azadeh Akbari; Part III. Technology and Policy: 10. Exploitation in the platform age Daniel Susser; 11. People as packets in the age of algorithmic mobility shaping Jason Millar and Elizabeth Grey; 12. Doughnut privacy: a preliminary thought experiment Julie E. Cohen.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.11.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► IT-Recht | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-38387-6 / 1009383876 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-38387-5 / 9781009383875 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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