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Being Human in the Digital World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by Beate Roessler · Valerie Steeves
Cambridge University Press November 2025

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ISBN-13
9781009383875
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
November 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table 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
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