Postdigital Humans
Transitions, Transformations and Transcendence
Editors: Savin-Baden, Maggi (Ed.)
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This book explores approaches to developing and using postdigital humans and the impact they are having on a postdigital world. It presents current research and practices at a time when education is changing rapidly with digital, technological advances. In particular, it outlines the major challenges faced by today’s employers, developers, teachers, researchers, priests and philosophers. The book examines conceptions of postdigital humans and studies the issue in connection with ethics and employment, as well as from perspectives such as philosophy and religion.
- About the authors
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Maggi Savin-Baden is Professor of Higher Education, University of Worcester, UK. She has been research learning in innovative spaces for over 20 years gaining grants from funder that include The Leverhulme Trust, Esmee Fairbairn, JISC and the Ministry of Defence. She has authored, coauthored and edited 17 books to date with 2 more due out in 2020-21. In her spare time she is a baker, runner and triathlete.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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What Are Postdigital Humans?
Pages 3-15
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Postdigital Humans: Taking Evolution in Own Hands
Pages 17-31
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Experience of Using a Virtual Life Coach: A Case Study of Novice Users
Pages 35-52
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Venturing Beyond the Imposition of a Postdigital, Anti-human Higher Education
Pages 53-70
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The Value of Postdigital Humans as Objects, or Subjects, in McDonaldised Society
Pages 71-87
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Postdigital Humans
- Book Subtitle
- Transitions, Transformations and Transcendence
- Editors
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- Maggi Savin-Baden
- Series Title
- Postdigital Science and Education
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-65592-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-65592-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-65591-4
- Series ISSN
- 2662-5326
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXV, 195
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
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