Being Human in the Digital World

Beate Roessler is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of The Value of Privacy (2004) and Autonomy. An Essay on the Life Well-Lived (2021). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Valerie Steeves is a Professor in the Department of Criminology of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. She is the principal investigator of the eQuality Project, a multimillion-dollar project funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada researching young people's experiences online.

• 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.