Being Human in the Digital World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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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.

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Being Human in the Digital World
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Being Human in the Digital World - Title page
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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Copyright page
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Contributors
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1 - Introduction
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- By Beate Roessler, Valerie Steeves
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Part I - Conceptualizing the Digital Human
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2 - Platform City People
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- By David Murakami Wood
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3 - Robots, Humans, and Their Vulnerabilities
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- By Beate Roessler
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4 - Cultural Foundations for Conserving Human Capacities in an Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence
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Toward a Philosophico-Literary Critique of Simulation
- By Frank Pasquale
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5 - Surveillance and Human Flourishing
pp 63-76
Pandemic Challenges
- By David Lyon
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Part II - Living the Digital Life
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6 - Machine Readable Humanity
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What’s the Problem?
- By Margot Hanley, Solon Barocas, Helen Nissenbaum
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7 - Carebots
pp 100-115
Gender, Empire, and the Capacity to Dissent
- By Chloé S. Georas
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8 - Networked Communities and the Algorithmic Other
pp 116-128
- By Valerie Steeves
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9 - The Birth of Code/Body
pp 129-142
- By Azadeh Akbari
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Part III - Technology and Policy
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10 - Exploitation in the Platform Age
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- By Daniel Susser
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11 - People as Packets in the Age of Algorithmic Mobility Shaping
pp 165-184
- By Jason Millar, Elizabeth Gray
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12 - Doughnut Privacy
pp 185-204
A Preliminary Thought Experiment
- By Julie E. Cohen
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Index
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