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The Internet of Animals: Human-Animal Relationships in the Digital Age - Couverture rigide

Lupton, Deborah

 
9781509552740: The Internet of Animals: Human-Animal Relationships in the Digital Age
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 150955274X ISBN 13 : 9781509552740
Editeur : Polity Press, 2023

Synopsis

'The internet is made of cats' is a half-jokingly made claim. Today, animals of all shapes and sizes inhabit our digital spaces, including companion animals, wildlife, feral animals and livestock.

In this book, Deborah Lupton explores how digital technologies and datafication are changing our relationships with other animals. Playfully building on the concept of 'The Internet of Things', she discusses the complex feelings that have developed between people and animals through the use of digital devices, from social media to employing animal-like robots as companions and carers. The book brings together a range of perspectives, including those of sociology, cultural geography, environmental humanities, critical animal studies and internet studies, to consider how these new digital technologies are contributing to major changes in human-animal relationships at both the micropolitical and macropolitical levels. As Lupton shows, while digital devices and media have strengthened people's relationships to other creatures, these technologies can also objectify animals as things for human entertainment, therapy or economic exploitation.

This original and engaging book will be of interest to scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities.

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À propos de l'auteur

Deborah Lupton is SHARP Professor, and Leader of the Vitalities Lab and the UNSW Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, at UNSW Sydney.

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
150955274X
ISBN 13 
9781509552740
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
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