Free Download Myria Georgiou, "Being Human in Digital Cities"
English | ISBN: 1509530797 | 2024 | 196 pages | PDF | 2 MB
How is life in digital cities changing what it means to be human?
In this perceptive book, Myria Georgiou sets out to investigate the new configuration of social order that is taking shape in today's cities. Although routed through extractive datafication, compulsive connectivity, and regulatory AI technologies, this digital order nonetheless displaces technocentrism and instead promotes new visions of humanism, all in the name of freedom, diversity, and sustainability. But the digital order emerges in the midst of neoliberal instability and crises, resulting in a plurality of contrasting responses to securing digitally mediated human progress. While corporate, media, and state actors mobilize such positive sociotechnical imaginaries to promise digitally mediated human progress, urban citizens and social movements propose alternative pathways to autonomy and dignity through and sometimes against digital technologies.
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