{"product_id":"being-human-in-digital-cities-hardback-9781509530793","title":"Being Human in Digital Cities (Hardback) 9781509530793","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBeing Human in Digital Cities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMyria Georgiou (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509530793, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 December 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e196 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 14.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.386 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Myria Georgiou offers a fascinating critique of how humans and cities are co-constructed through promises of a digital future. This is a highly engaging and important book, which will be of great interest to academics and students for years to come.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAyona Datta, University College London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Discussion of what it means to be human is usually abstract. Myria Georgiou complements this with really helpful attention to urban contexts, their variety and the different shapes they give to human experience, action and, indeed, reality. An important contribution.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraig Calhoun, Arizona State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Myria Georgiou‘s excellent new book [is] a must-read for anyone interested in digital technologies, cities and humans.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGillian Rose, \u003ci\u003eVisual \/ Method \/ Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Examining the digital order’s influence, including datafication, surveillance and mapping, Georgiou’s essential book advocates for centring humans through the paradigm of the “right to the city” based on social justice, equity, democracy and sustainability.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamira Allioui, \u003ci\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow is life in digital cities changing what it means to be human?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInvestigating 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.​\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eChapter 1. The Digital Order of Cities: For People, by the People?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Competing Humanisms of the Digital City\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Popular Humanism: The Sociotechnical Imaginaries of the Digital Order\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Demotic Humanism: The Liminal Subject of the Digital Order\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. 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