Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Beate Roessler and Valerie Steeves -- Platform City People / David Murakami Wood -- Robots, Humans, and Their Vulnerabilities / Beate Roessler -- Cultural Foundations for Conserving Human Capacities in an Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence : Toward a Philosophico-Literary Critique of Simulation / Frank Pasquale -- Surveillance and Human Flourishing : Pandemic Challenges / David Lyon -- Is There an Obligation to be Machine Readable? / Solon Barocas, Margot Hanley, and Helen Nissenbaum -- Carebots : Gender, Empire and the Capacity to Dissent / Chloé S. Georas -- Networked Communities and the Algorithmic Other / Valerie Steeves -- The Birth of Code|Body / Azadeh Akbari -- Exploitation in the Platform Age / Daniel Susser -- People as Packets in the Age of Algorithmic Mobility Shaping / Jason Millar and Elizabeth Grey -- Doughnut Privacy : A Preliminary Thought Experiment / Julie E. Cohen.

"This volume explores the different ways in which digital technologies might change the idea of being human. It investigates how our digitized society could transform the conditions that enable humans to direct their own lives, enjoy flourishing relationships, and be 'worthy of respect' in a networked world"-- Provided by publisher.