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Cyber-Social Transformations: On the Impact of Technologies in Everyday Life

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Cyber-Social Transformations

On the Impact of Technologies in Everyday Life

Edited by James Cuffe and Peter Walsh

278 pages, 8 figs, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80768-228-6 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (May 2027)


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The book makes a substantial contribution to ways of thinking about entanglements between platform practices, governance and emerging concerns for the uptake and integration of AI technologies, based on empirical, field work-based research. Jolynna Sinahan, University of Manchester

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In an age marked by phrases such as Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence, this volume explores how technical and social systems constitute each other. From speed cameras in Ecuador to war memes in Ukraine, a game between neighbours during Covid to a flirtatious encounter with AI, each chapter delves into a particular theme in different geographical contexts. Anthropological and philosophical contributions sit alongside legal, sociological and creative pieces to offer interpretative work which explores how humans commune in technically mediated realms and what is lost when mediation disappears from view.

James Cuffe is Principal Investigator of the Irish Research Council Laureate project ‘CyberSocial’, which investigates digital transition in urban Ireland, and Director of the CyberSocial Research Lab at University College Cork. His research examines the social and ethical dimensions of techno-social transformation.

Peter Walsh is an anthropologist at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC) at Université Libre de Bruxelles with funding from the FNRS. His current research focus brings together his experience as a working psychotherapist and an interest in the social and psychological dimensions of Virtual Reality technologies.

Subject: Anthropology (General)


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