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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2025

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Beate Roessler  and
Valerie Steeves
Beate Roessler
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam
Valerie Steeves
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa

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Being Human in the Digital World
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
 , pp. 205 - 210
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Index

advertising, 79
behavioral advertising, 82, 153–154
exploitation, 148
targeted advertising, 146
algorithms
algorithmic bias, 130
algorithmic labour management, 146
algorithmic objectivity, 70
algorithmic other, 123–125
algorithmic pricing, 146, 152
personalized pricing, 152
algorithmically controlled mobility
net neutrality, 174
bias, 68, 134
discrimination, 67
emotions, 37, 45
gig economy, 151–152, 151
humanization, 123
information discrimination, 171–172
navigational systems, 165
net neutrality, 169
common carriage, 173
social media, 55
speech recognition, 88
streaming service recommendations, 91
technological autonomy, 70
young persons’ experiences, 119
artificial intelligence, 81–82
automation, 51, 55
behavioural prediction, 83
emotions, 45
poetry, 137
facial recognition, 67
fraud detection, 195
health insurance, 84
in-car navigation, 167
machine learning
agnosticism, 198
health diagnoses, 90
speech recognition, 86
machine-written language, 45
military, use by, 55
online advertising, 84, 153–154
platform cities, 15, 22
popular culture, 46–54, 56–57
robots, 36
romantic relationships, 53
sentience, 48
social relationships, 45
chatbots, 53
authoritarianism
platform cities, 23
automation, 51, 55
border screening, 134
facial recognition, 89
medical care, 90
navigation, 165, 166–168, 176
phone services, 86
big data
advertising, 84, 153–154, 158
biometrics, 88
corporeality, 131
data collection, 153
passive, 91
social welfare, 187
dataism, 63, 69
immigration, 129
dataveillance, 64
deidentification, 64, 70
ethics, 67
health insurance, 84
machine learning, 85
machine readability, 79–96
mandatory adoption, 55, 153
misinformation, 189
navigational systems, 169, 175
personalization, 189
platform cities, 18
profit, 69
public health, 64
security, 63
social justice, 68
speech recognition, 87
streaming services, 91
surveillance, 66, 69
biometrics, 83, 88, 129
digital biomarkers, 94
facial recognition, 88–90, 160
fingerprints, 88
health diagnoses, 90–91
law enforcement, 89
platform cities, 21
refugees, 131–132
surveillance, 131
surveillance abolition, 193
blockchain, 18
capitalism
digital platforms, 156
exploitation, 148–149
surveillance, 189, 193
surveillance capitalism, 63, 69, 158
carebots. See robots
colonialism, 102
platform cities, 20
robot servitude, 109–110
surveillance, 190
common carriage, 173
computing
fog of technology, 100
legibility, 81–82
digital biomarkers, 94
speech recognition, 87
machine readability, 80
COVID-19. See public health
culture. See humans
data. See big data
data justice. See big data
degradation. See exploitation
democracy
access to information, 172
mobility, 165, 180
net neutrality, 172
platform cities, 15
privacy, 66
surveillance, 189
targeted advertising, 147
digital humans, 28
robots, and, 35
transhumanism, 35
digital platforms
algorithmic pricing, 157
definition, 155
exploitation, 155
discrimination, 72
artificial intelligence, 67, 130
categorization, 94
credit reporting, 194
facial recognition, 67
information discrimination, 170
labour exploitation, 146
price discrimination, 153
doughnut model, 185
environmental sustainability, 187
privacy and surveillance, 188, 195–198
economics
advertising, 146
algorithmic pricing, 146, 152, 157–158
personalized pricing, 152
anti-competition
net neutrality, 171
virtual monopolies, 173
zero-rating, 178
digital platforms, 157
doughnut economics, 185
exploitation, 148–149
gig economy, 151–152, 151
social welfare, 186
surveillance, 189
unfairness, 149
embodiment. See humans
emotions, 36–37
emotions
digital biomarkers, 94
emotions
robots, 113
emotions
caregiving, 113
emotions
artificial intelligence, 137
employment
exploitation, 155
gig economy, 145, 151–152
legal protections, 156
surveillance, 189
enlightenment, 1, 3, 5
environmentalism
doughnut economics, 185
platform cities, 18, 21
social welfare, 187
surveillance
pollution, 190
ethics
algorithmically controlled mobility, 169, 174
carebots, 106–112
data ethics, 67
liberation theology, 72
longtermism, 58
mobility shaping, 179
net neutrality, 172
surveillance capitalism, 69
eugenics, 20, 58
platform cities, 23
exploitation
advertising, 153–154
algorithmic pricing, 157–158
definition, 148–149
degradation, 150
unfairness, 149
employment, 145
digital platforms, 155
legal protections, 156
privacy and surveillance, 195
responses to, 160
targeted advertising, 147, 153–154
vulnerability, 151
facial recognition. See biometrics
feminism, 4
exploitation, 149
gender
caretaking, 105
corporeality, 134
performativity, 105
robots, 104–106
surveillance, 189
material body, 130
privacy, 190
visual culture, 104
freedom
platform cities, 17
freedom
self-driving cars, 66
freedom
facial recognition, 89
gender. See feminism
governments
good governance, 194–195
open government, 80
surveillance, 65, 194–195
human rights, 3
access to information, 172
dehumanization, 33
employment, 156
freedom of speech, 172
immigration, 135
mobility rights, 165
property ownership, 20
robots, 108
platform cities, 23
surveillance, 130
humans
autonomy, 4, 32, 40, 50
carebots, 101
machine readability, 95
networked communities, 117
online interactions, 125
capacity to dissent, 106–112
caregiving, 112
categorization, 93
commodification, 147
community, 116
generalized other, 122, 124
corporeality, 6, 131
culture
cultural differences, 101
subjectivities, 103
visual culture, 104
dehumanization, 33–34, 40, 93
human bodies, 129
human flourishing, 65, 67, 73, 191–192
human nature, 29, 46, 49
free will, 50
nationalism, 71
universal, lack of, 102, 111
unpredictability, 47, 100, 125
personhood, 107
religion, 73
selfhood, 116
socialization, 118
communities, 123
vulnerability, 32–33, 52–53, 150
immigration
biometrics, 131–132
datafication of bodies, 129
immigration
surveillance, 191
international governance, 131
internet
digital platforms
definition, 155
exploitation, 155
information discrimination, 170
net neutrality, 169–170
common carriage, 173
online communities, 116
tracking, 79
labour. See employment
legibility. See articial intelligence, computing
machine learning. See artificial intelligence
machine readability, 79–96
advertising, 84
dynamic machine readability, 82, 85
health insurance, 84
mobility
algorithmically controlled mobility
net neutrality, 174
big data, 175
democracy, 165
ethics, 169
mobility decision making, 180
mobility shaping, 166, 174
ethics, 174, 179
net neutrality, compared to, 177–179, 181
nudging, 176
privatization, 181
turn-by-turn navigation, 165, 176
cell phones, 168
motor vehicles. See mobility
multiculturalism
platform cities, 21
surveillance, 72
navigation. See mobility
neoliberalism
Geneva school, 17
platform cities, 15–17
public health surveillance, 191
robot servitude, 110
net neutrality
blocking, 177
common carriage, 173
data packets, 170
information discrimination, 170, 172
mobility shaping, 174
throttling, 178
zero-rating, 177
networked communities, 116–126
autonomy, 117
de-personalization, 122
informational self-determination, 117
profit, 125
young persons, 118, 119–122
online advertising. See advertising
pandemic. See public health
policing
abolition, 193
platform cities, 20
public health surveillance, 191
policy
discrimination, 197
due process, 194
employment, 156
internet
common carrier, 173
mental maps, 186
doughnut model, 186
mission creep, 195–198
net neutality, 169–170
privacy, 187
doughnut model, 195
public health, 65
public health, 68
surveillance
constraints, 195–198, 195–198
doughnut model, 188, 195
financial surveillance, 192–193
surveillance abolition, 193–194
posthumanism, 3–5
dichotomies, 3
post-phenomenologists, 4–5
postmodernism, 3
post-phenomenology, 4–5
transhumanism, and, 6
privacy, 65–66
antisocial privacy, 190
automation
medical care, 90
biometrics, 131
definition, 185
informational self-determination, 117
net neutrality, 172
obfuscation, 79
platform city, 19
prosocial privacy, 188
search browsers, 79
social control, 190
speech recognition, 87
surveillance, relationship to, 186
targeted advertising, 147
young persons, 118
privatization
mobility, 181
public health surveillance, 191
public health
diagnostic tools, 90–91
privacy, 191
surveillance, 64–71, 129, 191
racialization, 20
dehumanization, 33–34
platform cities, 21
robots, 106
surveillance, 189, 193
regulation
deidentified data, 70
employment, 156
information discrimination, 172
mobility, 181
mobility systems, 170
navigation, 167
privacy
data collection, 196
surveillance, 195–198
telecommunications, 173
religion. See humans
robots, 46
capacity to dissent, 106–112
carebots, 100–113
ethics, 106
cyborg, 3–4, 130
emotions, 36–37, 45, 49
ethics, 50, 57
gendering, 104–106
healthcare, 36–37
humans, compared to, 30–32, 38–39
hyper-realistic, 101
moral status, 49, 106–112
neutrality of design, 106
pets, 112
platform cities, 23
racialization, 106
sentience, 111
slavery, 108
social relationships, 41, 45
socioeconomic class, 106
uncanny valley, 101–104
security
big data, 63
biometrics, 89
immigration, 133
platform cities, 19
smart cities, 14
smart cities. See smartness
smartness
smart cities. See platform cities
smart cars, 66, 169
smart cities, 14–15, 70
corporeality, 135
smartphones, 168
social media, 55–56, 59, 91
audience, 119–121
commercial content, 121
networked communities, 116
polarization, 67, 189
surveillance, 65
young persons, 119–122
socialization. See humans
speech recognition, 86
legibility, 87
privacy, 87
surveillance
antisocial surveillance, 188
big data, 69
colonialism, 190
dataveillance, 64
definition, 185
democracy, 189
discrimination, 130
doughnut model, 188
environmental sustainability, 190
facial recognition, 67, 89
financial surveillance, 192–193
gender, 189
immigration, 191
law enforcement, 191
material body, 130
mission creep, 195–198
net neutrality, 172
online advertising, 79, 147, 153–154
platform cities, 19
poverty, 72, 189
privacy, relationship to, 186
prosocial surveillance, 190
public health, 64–71, 191
neoliberalism, 191
racialization, 189
regulation, 70
smart cities, 14
surveillance abolition, 193–194
surveillance capitalism, 63, 69, 158
visual culture, 104
sustainability. See environmentalism
technology
alienation, 47
fog of technology, 100
navigation technologies, 165
posthumanism, 4–5
tech solutionism, 63, 71
technological autonomy, 70
technological devices
cell phones, 5, 167–168
machine readability, 82
personal digital assistant, 5
speech recognition, 86
technological somnambulism, 103
technological utopianism, 71
transhumanism, 6
transhumanism, 5–7, 55
hardware, 54
platform cities, 22
rationality, 35
robots, 35, 50
wetware, 6, 54
ultra-humanism. See transhumanism
unfairness. See exploitation
young persons, 118
networked communities, 119–122

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