Being Human in Digital Cities

Myria Georgiou is Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

• Chapter 1. The Digital Order of Cities: For People, by the People?Chapter 2. The Competing Humanisms of the Digital CityChapter 3. Popular Humanism: The Sociotechnical Imaginaries of the Digital OrderChapter 4. Demotic Humanism: The Liminal Subject of the Digital OrderChapter 5. Critical Humanism: Against the Digital Order

"Myria Georgiou offers a fascinating critique of how humans and cities are co-constructed through promises of a digital future. This is a highly engaging and important book, which will be of great interest to academics and students for years to come."Ayona Datta, University College London"Discussion of what it means to be human is usually abstract. Myria Georgiou complements this with really helpful attention to urban contexts, their variety and the different shapes they give to human experience, action and, indeed, reality. An important contribution."Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University"Myria Georgiou‘s excellent new book [is] a must-read for anyone interested in digital technologies, cities and humans."Gillian Rose, Visual / Method / Culture"Examining the digital order’s influence, including datafication, surveillance and mapping, Georgiou’s essential book advocates for centring humans through the paradigm of the “right to the city” based on social justice, equity, democracy and sustainability."Samira Allioui, LSE Review of Books