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The Onlife Manifesto : Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Floridi, Luciano.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2014.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • The Onlife Manifesto
  • The Onlife Manifesto
  • 1 Game Over for Modernity?
  • 2 In the Corner of Frankenstein and Big Brother
  • 3 Dualism is Dead! Long Live Dualities!
  • 3.1 Control and Complexity
  • 3.2 Public and Private
  • 4 Proposals to Better Serve Policies
  • 4.1 The Relational Self
  • 4.2 Becoming a Digitally Literate Society
  • 4.3 Caring for Our Attentional Capabilities
  • Part II
  • Commentaries
  • Charles Ess-Commentary on The Onlife Manifesto
  • References
  • Luciano Floridi-Commentary on the Onlife Manifesto
  • References
  • Commentary on the Onlife Manifesto
  • References
  • Dualism is Dead. Long Live Plurality (Instead of Duality)
  • References
  • Commentary by Yiannis Laouris
  • Comments to the Onlife Manifesto
  • References
  • Comment to the Manifesto
  • References
  • May Thorseth: Commentary of the Manifesto
  • Part III
  • The Onlife Initiative
  • Background Document: Rethinking Public Spaces in the Digital Transition
  • 1 What do we Mean by Concept Reengineering?
  • 2 What do we Mean by the Digital Transition?
  • 3 Why Such an Exercise in the Realm of the Digital Agenda?
  • 3.1 The Blurring of the Distinction Between Reality and Virtuality
  • 3.2 The Blurring of the Distinctions Between People, Nature and Artefacts
  • 3.3 The Reversal from Scarcity to Abundance, when it Comes to Information
  • 3.4 The Reversal from Entity's Primacy Over Interactions to Interactions' Primacy Over Entities
  • 4 Process and Outcome
  • References
  • Part IV
  • Hyperconnectivity
  • Hyperhistory and the Philosophy of Information Policies
  • 1 Hyperhistory
  • 2 The Philosophy of Information Policies
  • 3 Political Apoptosis: from the Historical State to the Hyperhistorical MASs
  • 4 The Nature and Problems of the Political MAS
  • 4.1 Identity and Cohesion.
  • 4.2 Consent
  • 4.3 Social vs. Political Space
  • 4.4 Legitimacy
  • 5 The Transparent State
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Views and Examples on Hyper-Connectivity
  • 1 Preliminary
  • 2 G-rid Democracy
  • 2.1 Evolution of the Social Fabric
  • 2.2 Diffusion Modes
  • 2.3 Network Topology
  • 2.4 Institutions as Processors
  • 2.5 Parallel Computing
  • 2.6 Grid Computation and Modern Democracy
  • 2.7 G-rid Democracy
  • 3 Wikipedia, a Realized Utopia
  • 3.1 Evolution of the Editorial Governance
  • 3.2 Traditional Governance of Editorial Projects
  • 3.3 Facilities Induced by ICTs
  • 3.4 Wikipedia Editorial Governance
  • 3.5 An Unexpected Success
  • 4 Fortunes and Misfortunes of Patients' Associations
  • 4.1 Preliminary
  • 4.2 Brief Historical Recall
  • 4.3 Medical Nemesis
  • 4.4 Forty Years Later
  • 4.5 The Shattering of Institutions
  • 5 The Digital "Aura" in a World of Abundance
  • 5.1 From Scarcity to Abundance
  • 5.2 The Loss of the Aura
  • 5.3 The Digital "Aura"
  • References
  • Part V
  • Identity, Selfhood and Attention
  • The Onlife Manifesto: Philosophical Backgrounds, Media Usages, and the Futuresof Democracy and Equality
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Relational Self and the Onlife Initiative: Descartes, Phenomenology, and the Analogue-Digital Age
  • 2.1 From Norbert Wiener to Enactivism and the Embedded Mind
  • 2.2 Phenomenology
  • 2.3 Summary
  • 2.4 How These Developments Prefigure and Support Our Characterizations
  • 3 Digital-Analogue Media and the (re)Emergence of Relational Selves
  • 3.1 Digital Media and Digital Futures?
  • 3.2 Trust, Identity, and Polity
  • 3.3 Changing Selves, Changing Privacies
  • 3.4 Changing Selves, Changing Polities?
  • 4 Relational Selves, Democracy and Equality?
  • 4.1 Recent Work in (Western) Internet Studies
  • 4.2 Core Tension: Equality and Gender Equality.
  • 4.3 Recent Work on Confucian Traditions and Contemporary Communication Technologies
  • 5 Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Towards a Grey Ecology
  • 1 Economy of Attention: From Abundance to Scarcity
  • 2 Disembodiment and Data-ification of Experiences
  • 3 Interaction and Agency
  • 4 Control and Self-Presentation
  • 5 Intimacy as a Defence
  • 6 Grey Ecology as an Ecology of Agency and Alterity
  • References
  • Reengineering and Reinventing both Democracy and the Concept of Life in the Digital Era
  • 1 The Need to Reinvent Democracy in the Digital Era
  • 1.1 Direct Democracy A Recipe for Chaos
  • 1.2 Grand Challenges Towards Reengineering or Even Reinventing Democracy
  • 1.2.1 Challenge #1: Identify and Engage the Right Stakeholders
  • 1.2.2 Challenge #2: Voting Leads to Fair and Wise Results
  • 1.2.3 Challenge #3: Protecting Anonymity and Authenticity of Opinions
  • 1.2.4 Challenge #4: Achieve True and Not Elusive Equality
  • 1.3 Policy Implications
  • 1.3.1 Authentic Participation
  • 1.3.2 Respect Human Cognitive Limitations
  • 1.3.3 Technologies to Enhance Human Cognitive Limitations
  • 2 Should We Re-Engineer the Concept of Life in the Computational Era
  • 2.1 What Does It Mean to Be Alive?
  • 2.2 What Does It Mean to Be Human?
  • 2.3 Mind and Body
  • 2.4 Immortality and Sustainability
  • 2.5 Grand Challenges Towards Achieving Immortality
  • 2.5.1 Challenge #1: Decelerate or Stop Biological Aging
  • 2.5.2 Challenge #2: Replace Biological with Manufactured Tissues
  • 2.5.3 Challenge #3: Regenerative Medicine
  • 2.5.4 Challenge #4: Transfer the Mind to a Machine
  • 2.6 Policy Implications
  • 2.6.1 Life Extension
  • 2.6.2 Authentic Participation in Decision Making and Governance
  • 2.6.3 Access to Technologies
  • 2.6.4 Privacy in a Globally Connected World
  • 2.6.5 The Right to Digital Euthanasia
  • 2.7 What Is Human?
  • References
  • Part VI.
  • Complexity, Responsibility and Governance
  • Distributed Epistemic Responsibility in a Hyperconnected Era
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Knowing Today
  • 3 Responsible Research and Innovation
  • 4 Approaching Distributed Epistemic Responsibility
  • 4.1 Epistemic Responsibility: Insights from (Social) Epistemology
  • 4.2 Responsibility &amp
  • ICT: Insights from the Philosophy of Computing
  • 4.3 Epistemic Responsibility in Entangled Socio-Technical Systems: Insights from Feminist Theory
  • 5 Facing Distributed Epistemic Responsibility
  • 5.1 Re-Conceptualizing Epistemic Responsibility
  • 5.2 Governance for Epistemic Responsibility
  • References
  • Good Onlife Governance: On Law, Spontaneous Orders, and Design
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Defining Governance
  • 3 Three Levels of Analysis
  • 4 The Topology of Onlife Networks
  • 5 The Design of the Onlife Experience
  • 6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part VII
  • The Public Sphere in a Computational Era
  • The Public(s) Onlife
  • 1 Onlife After the Computational Turn?
  • 1.1 Computational Turn
  • 1.2 Smart Environments
  • 1.3 What's New Here?
  • 1.4 Which Are the Challenges?
  • 2 Publics and their Problems in Smart Environments
  • 2.1 Smart Environments and the Public Sphere
  • 2.2 Public Private Social: Performance, Exposure, Opacity
  • 2.3 Public Performance in the ONLIFE Everywhere
  • 2.4 A Plurality of Publics, a Choice of Exposure, a Place to Hide
  • 3 Legal Protection by Design: A Novel Social Contract?
  • 3.1 The Nature of the Social Contract
  • 3.2 Protecting Modernity's Assets: Reconstructing the Social Contract
  • 3.3 Technology Neutrality and Legal Protection by Design
  • 3.4 The Proposed Data Protection Regulation
  • References
  • Rethinking the Human Condition in a Hyperconnected Era: Why Freedom is Not About Sovereignty But About Beginnings.
  • 1 The Digital Transition as a Reality-Check for Plato's Utopia Failure
  • 2 Omniscience/Omnipotence: Modern Utopia, Human Condition's Dystopia?
  • 2.1 The Centrality of Control in Knowledge and Action
  • 2.2 Policy-Making or the Victory of the Animal Laborans?
  • 2.3 Policy-Making and the Devaluation of the Present
  • 3 The Arendtian Axiomatic Reset
  • 3.1 Acknowledging Natality
  • 3.2 Embracing Plurality
  • 3.3 Plurality-and-Natality as an Alternative to Omniscience-and-Omnipotence
  • 4 Reclaiming Distinctions in the Light of Plurality and Natality
  • 4.1 Public and Private
  • 4.2 Agents, Artefacts and Nature
  • 5 The Arendtian Axiomatic Reset in a Hyperconnected Era
  • 5.1 The Proper Mix of Literacy and Policy…
  • 5.2 Coping With the Risk of "Reality Theft"
  • 6 Conclusion: Reclaiming Plurality
  • References
  • Designing the Public Sphere: Information Technologies and the Politics of Mediation
  • 1 Onlife Technologies
  • 2 Onlife Relations
  • 3 Onlife Mediations
  • 4 Onlife Governance
  • 5 Onlife Citizenship
  • References
  • Towards an Online Bill of Rights
  • 1 The Lingering Myth of Cyber-Utopianism
  • 2 Towards a European Onlife Bill of Rights?
  • 3 A Digital 'Bill of Rights'
  • 4 From Creative Commons to Civilized Commons
  • References
  • On Tolerance and Fictitious Publics
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 New Publics and the Old Problem of the Public?-Digital Transition
  • 3 New Medias and Blurring of Private-Public
  • 4 Reflective Judgment
  • 4.1 The Universal of Reflective Judgment
  • 4.2 Reflective Judgment and Real Public Reasoning
  • 4.3 Kant's Maxims of Common Human Understanding
  • 5 Responsibility and Tolerance at Stake
  • 5.1 Stefan Arkadievitch vs. Anders Behring Breivik
  • 5.2 Tolerance of Real or Fictitious Publics?
  • 6 Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Part VIII
  • The Onlife Initiative-Conclusion
  • The Onlife Initiative-Conclusion.
  • Index.

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