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Acknowledgments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2025

Edited by
Beate Roessler  and
Valerie Steeves
Beate Roessler
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam
Valerie Steeves
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa

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Being Human in the Digital World
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
 , pp. ix - x
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Acknowledgments

We are very grateful to a number of people who helped enormously during the various stages of putting this volume together. First, thanks to our authors, whose patience, cooperation, and commitment were invaluable throughout the process.

Helen Nissenbaum was especially helpful, as she cohosted the workshop we had at Cornell Tech in New York City where we met in person to discuss draft versions of each chapter. We are also grateful to Chloé S. Georas for the insightful and provocative photographs that grace the cover of the volume. To see more of Chloé’s photo art, visit her unLine exhibition at www.equalityproject.ca/resources/unline-exhibition/.

Thanks as well to Matt Galloway at Cambridge, whose patience, professionalism, good will, and support were a tremendous help.

We also owe a debt of gratitude to the fantastic students who helped us with editing, citations, and formatting: Lukas H. Seidler, who has that rare combination of patience and perfectionism; and Franky Yousry, whose enthusiasm and creativity made our tasks much easier.

Lastly, we want to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for their generous financial support.

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