{"product_id":"9798765118757","title":"Relational Technologies In Search of the Self across Datafied Lifeworlds","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThinking Media\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eRelational Technologies\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eIn Search of the Self across Datafied Lifeworlds\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAmanda Lagerkvist | Bernd Herzogenrath | Jacek Smolicki | Patricia Pisters\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eComputers \/ Interactive \u0026amp; Multimedia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis open access collection gathers thinkers, media practitioners, scholars, and artists to bring attention to how our relational selves, lives, and lifeworlds emerge within a range of digital platforms, media environments, creative media practices, and performances to probe what it means to become subjective by evolving in and with a world of \u003ci\u003erelational technologies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs biometric artificial intelligence, datafication procedures and algorithms increasingly saturate and reconfigure human and more-than-human realms, technologies, and selves co-evolve in deepest relationality. Nearly every form of existence has today become subject to computational harvesting and utilization. This renders our relations with technologies-those we actively compose and those that are forced upon us-ever more complex and inconceivably entwined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTopics covered in this collection include: face monitoring and modelling practices, quantified applications, writing techniques, biometric identifications of age and health, AI informed decision making, biohacking, voice recognition, social media, and algorithmic cultures of datafication. The overarching motivation is to generate new forms of understanding, but also “counter-measures” for negotiating this relational condition existentially, socially, and artistically. Thus, offering a unique contribution to the debates on data selves, \u003ci\u003eRelational Technologies\u003c\/i\u003e provides manifold possibilities for a \u003ci\u003eco-existentialist\u003c\/i\u003e understanding of technological developments of datafication and biometrics. This way the volume brings posthumanist critique into conversation with the young field of existential media studies, in search of new inflection points of change and transformation through new modes of knowing, reflecting, and crafting media futures of relationality.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCC BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003elicence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmanda Lagerkvist \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Core Fellow at HCAS, the University of Helsinki, Finland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacek Smolicki \u003c\/b\u003eis a researcher, artist, designer and 2026 Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22 July 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798765118757\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e288\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51944803958924,"sku":"9798765118757","price":35.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_db724b97-9a6d-48d0-94a8-c71a7fcf02ce.jpg?v=1786036368","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9798765118757","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}