The Internet of Animals
Human-Animal Relationships in the Digital Age
$28.01
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2023
Summary
‘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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509552757 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509552758 |
| Author: | Deborah Lupton |
| Publisher: | Polity Press |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 137mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“Deborah Lupton is a brilliant guide to animal–human–digital assemblages.”
Bill Adams, University of Cambridge
“Lupton takes us on a fascinating journey into the past and the future to help us grapple with our intimate relations with animals. We are confronted with how the digital mediates our emotional need to care for and control the creatures that we have come to see as extensions of ourselves.”
Payal Arora, Erasmus University, and author of The Next Billion Users
“Lupton asks: ‘How are human-animal relationships changing?’ and ‘How are digital media and devices contributing to this change?’. Her wide-ranging exploration broaches many insightful responses to this question, with a useful attention to both pros and cons, though an inevitable weighting toward more regrettable and insidious ramifications.”
Randy Malamud, Journal of Animal Ethics
Deborah Lupton
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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