Being human in digital cities / Myria Georgiou.

Main entry:

Georgiou, Myria, 1971- author.

Title & Author:

Being human in digital cities / Myria Georgiou.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ, USA : Polity, 2024.

Description:

viii, 208 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-195) and index.
1. The Digital Order of Cities: For People, by the People? -- 2. The Competing Humanisms of the Digital City -- 3. Popular Humanism: The Sociotechnical Imaginaries of the Digital Order -- 4. Demotic Humanism: The Liminal Subject of the Digital Order -- 5. Critical Humanism: Against the Digital Order

Summary:

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. Investigating the dynamic workings of technology and power from a transnational and comparative perspective, this book reveals the contradictory claims and struggles for the future of digital cities and their humanity. In doing so, it will enrich understandings of digital urbanism, critical data studies, and critical humanist studies.

ISBN:

9781509530809 (paperback)
1509530800
9781509530793
1509530797

Subject:

Smart cities Social aspects.
Villes intelligentes Aspect social.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321474
Call No.: 321474
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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