Algorithms, Intuition and Networked Activism

In the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, digital, smart and algorithmic technologies, it is claimed, may be fundamentally transforming ‘the human’. They may, that is, be radically re-mediating human senses, habits and capacities. In Thumbelina (2015), for example, the late French philosoph...

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Main Author: Carolyn Pedwell
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Language:English
Published: University of Johannesburg 2019-10-01
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Online Access:https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/359
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description In the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, digital, smart and algorithmic technologies, it is claimed, may be fundamentally transforming ‘the human’. They may, that is, be radically re-mediating human senses, habits and capacities. In Thumbelina (2015), for example, the late French philosopher and media theorist Michel Serres argues that millennials are not only the first generation to experience the internet and related forms of digital media in their adolescence, they have also been comprehensively ‘[re]-formatted by the media’, and, thus, ‘no longer have the same body or behavior’ as previous generations (2015: 5-6).
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spelling doaj-art-da5d55d8df334657a9a64c311412166e2025-01-28T09:02:48ZengUniversity of JohannesburgThe Thinker2075-24582616-907X2019-10-0182410.36615/thethinker.v82i4.359Algorithms, Intuition and Networked ActivismCarolyn Pedwell In the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, digital, smart and algorithmic technologies, it is claimed, may be fundamentally transforming ‘the human’. They may, that is, be radically re-mediating human senses, habits and capacities. In Thumbelina (2015), for example, the late French philosopher and media theorist Michel Serres argues that millennials are not only the first generation to experience the internet and related forms of digital media in their adolescence, they have also been comprehensively ‘[re]-formatted by the media’, and, thus, ‘no longer have the same body or behavior’ as previous generations (2015: 5-6). https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/359Algorithms, Intuition and Networked Activism
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