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Hyperconnectivity and Digital Reality

Towards the Eutopia of Being Human

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  • © 2019

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Editors:
  1. Kathrin Otrel-Cass

    1. Department of Pedagogical Professionalisation, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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  • Offers critical perspectives on digitisation and society
  • Presents philosophical frameworks for digitised societies
  • Focuses on empirical examples and broader applications
  • Explores material conditions of digitisation

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Hyperconnectivity and Digital Reality: An Introduction

    • Kathrin Otrel-Cass
    Pages 1-8

  3. Communicative Action in the Light of the Onlife

    • Katarina Peović Vuković
    Pages 9-25

  4. Scaffolding the Self in Onlife

    • Lars Botin
    Pages 27-46

  5. Onlife Attention: Attention in the Digital Age

    • Galit Wellner
    Pages 47-65

  6. Consciousness in a Hyperconnected World: The Entanglements of Human–Machine Cognition

    • Kathrin Otrel-Cass
    Pages 67-82

  7. Redistribution of Medical Responsibility in the Network of the Hyper-connected Self

    • Anna Schneider-Kamp, Dorthe BrogÃ¥rd Kristensen
    Pages 83-102

  8. Game on for Modernity? Educating Ph.D. Students Beyond a Modern Conception of Science

    • Ole Skovsmose, Ole Ravn
    Pages 103-121

  9. The Knight of Faith Encounters Mr. Robot—Digital Literacy Revisited Through Deleuze and Guattari in Response to the Onlife Manifesto

    • Lars Bang
    Pages 123-144

  10. Epilogue: Of Scales, Spaces, Meshworks, and Maps of Connections

    • Kathrin Otrel-Cass
    Pages 145-153

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 155-158
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About this book

This book addresses the topic of hyperconnectivity by building on, expanding, and critically examining issues that have to do with information communication technology (ICT) and networked societies. The book explores questions relating to attention and consciousness, techno-capitalism and communicative action taking. Adopting different philosophical angles to assess the challenges we face due to our entanglement with hyperconnected technologies, the book studies performance and performativity in a digitised world by considering the unfolding of our onlife and by looking at what this means to educated future scientists and engineers in a hyperconnected world. The book further discusses digital activities as the new constructs of ourselves and poses questions about how much literacy is needed for us not to be enslaved by those constructs. The book also explores the challenges of hyperconnectivity and the health sector to showcase the vulnerabilities we are increasingly exposed to. It makes clear that - since the boundaries between on- and offline are becoming increasingly blurred - we will require new, flexible frameworks that reconsider what it means to be human in a hyperconnected world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Pedagogical Professionalisation, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Kathrin Otrel-Cass

About the editor

Kathrin Otrel-Cass, Ph.D., is Professor mso in science and technology education and practice and visual ethnography in the Department of Learning and Philosophy at Aalborg University. Her research interests are often of inter-disciplinary nature with focus on digital visual anthropology and variety of qualitative, ethnographic methodologies appropriate to the study of digital culture and data-related practices. She may be working with various practitioners and experts in environments where people are working with science/technology/engineering practices or their knowledge products. Her research interest in visual ethnography has led to the establishment of a video research laboratory (VILA.aau.dk), with a focus on the organized analysis of video recorded data. Kathrin is a member of the techno-anthropology research group, the ICT and Learning research group and the Digital Disruption Consortium at Aalborg University.

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