Being Human in Digital Cities

Digital cities are changing the way we live, promoting new visions of humanism and freedom, but also facing neoliberal instability and crises. This book explores the contradictory claims and struggles for the future of digital cities and their humanity, enriching our understanding of digital urbanism, critical data studies, and critical humanist studies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 196 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2023
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

In her insightful book, "Digital Cities: Shaping the Future of Humanity," Myria Georgiou delves into the evolving landscape of social order in contemporary cities. While this digital order is driven by extractive datafication, compulsive connectivity, and regulatory AI technologies, it challenges technocentrism and fosters new visions of humanism, aimed at promoting freedom, diversity, and sustainability. However, the emergence of this digital order occurs amidst neoliberal instability and crises, leading to diverse responses in securing digitally mediated human progress. Corporate, media, and state actors deploy positive sociotechnical imaginaries to promise digitally mediated human progress, while urban citizens and social movements advocate for alternative pathways to autonomy and dignity through and sometimes against digital technologies.

Through a transnational and comparative lens, this book uncovers the complex dynamics of technology and power, shedding light on the contradictory claims and struggles for the future of digital cities and their humanity. It contributes to our understanding of digital urbanism, critical data studies, and critical humanist studies, enriching our knowledge of the evolving urban landscape and the complex interplay between technology, society, and human experiences.

Weight: 397g
Dimension: 223 x 140 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509530793