Being Human in the Digital World - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This volume explores the different ways in which digital technologies might change the idea of being human. It investigates how our digitized society could transform the conditions that enable humans to direct their own lives, enjoy flourishing relationships, and be 'worthy of respect' in a networked world.

List of contents

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.

Summary

This volume explores the different ways in which digital technologies might change the idea of being human. It investigates how our digitized society could transform the conditions that enable humans to direct their own lives, enjoy flourishing relationships, and be 'worthy of respect' in a networked world.

Foreword

Provides new ways of interrogating our humanity as AI reshapes our socio-political relationships, lived environments, and bodies.

Product details

• Authors: Beate (University of Amsterdam) Steeves Roessler
• Assisted by: Beate Roessler (Editor), Roessler Beate (Editor), Valerie Steeves (Editor), Steeves Valerie (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9781009383875
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0938387-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; Artificial Intelligence, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Technology: general issues, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Impact of science and technology on society, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, Law and society, sociology of law, IT & Communications law