Index
Ignas Kalpokas
(Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
Malleable, Digital, and Posthuman
ISBN: 978-1-80117-621-7, eISBN: 978-1-80117-620-0
Publication date: 10 September 2021
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Kalpokas, I. (2021), "Index", Malleable, Digital, and Posthuman, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 163-169. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-620-020211013
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Copyright © 2021 Ignas Kalpokas. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited
INDEX
A/B testing
, 22, 82
Advertisers
, 8
Affect-based research methodology
, 13
Affective news
, 93
Affective proclivities
, 11–12, 15–16, 28, 42, 44
Affordance
, 4–5, 10–11, 67, 82–83, 104, 122, 127–128, 135
Agency
, 10, 13, 45, 70, 86, 107, 120, 127–128, 134–135
Agglomeration
, 1–2, 15, 81–82, 125–126, 137
anthropocentric to agglomeration-centric
, 128–136
Aggregation
, 88
Algorithmic/algorithms
, 22–23
algorithm-driven selection
, 98
architecture
, 63
bias
, 112
fabrication
, 19–20
logic of virality
, 77
media
, 27
processes
, 19
structuring of social
, 77–86
Algorithmisation
, 2–3, 118
Alpha testing
, 2–3
Analysis
, 31
Analytics
, 25–27, 37–38, 96, 99, 118, 137
Anthropocentric framework
, 1
Anthropocentric to agglomeration-centric
, 128–136
Anthropocentrism
, 13, 67, 107
Anti-anthropocentric developments
, 115
Anticipatory publics
, 88
Arbiters
, 80
Artificial intelligence (AI)
, 8–9, 24, 107–108
AI-driven economy
, 139
Ascription
, 83
Astroturfing
, 104
Attention
, 18
allocation
, 17–18
attention-hungry actors
, 25–26
attention-maximising form
, 77
capture
, 101
economy
, 11–12
struggle over
, 16–28
Audience
attention
, 17–18
democracy
, 101
power
, 5
Augmentation
, 10, 16–17, 45, 67, 75–76, 110–111
Authenticity
, 57, 63–64, 99
Automated mediatisation
, 4–5
Automated technology
, 118–119
Automation
, 107
Automatisation
, 21
Autonomous digital systems
, 109
Beta testing
, 3
Betafication
, 3–5, 15–17, 59, 82
of self
, 61
Bias
, 41, 81
algorithmic
, 112
cognitive
, 84–85
human
, 113, 116–117
Big Data
, 72–73, 79, 107–108, 110, 136
Black box
, 43, 81, 114–115, 120–121
Blogs
, 60–61
Bots
, 79–80, 92–93, 115
Bottom-up process
, 5
Branding
, 77, 87
Business model
, 22–23, 26–27
Business process as a service (BPaaS)
, 104–105
Capital
, 63–64
Capitalism
, 139
Captivation
, 59–60
Causation
, 2, 108–109
Celebrity
, 48–49
Centrisms
, 127
Choice architecture
, 16–17, 20, 43, 84–85
Citizenship
, 48–49
Classic snowballing principle
, 103
Climate change
, 4–5
Cloud party
, 93–94
Co-construction of self
, 60–61
Code
, 1
Cognitive bottleneck theory
, 16
Cognitive engagement
, 92
Cognitive overload
, 6, 26
Commodification. See also Betafication
, 5–6, 28–29, 56, 59–60, 74–75, 80
Commodity
, 5, 15–16, 28–29, 69, 76
Communication technologies
, 99–100
Computer
, 7
Connected strategy
, 37
Connective devices
, 27
Consciously formulating queries
, 45
Constant testing
, 3
Consumer
, 47
attitude
, 25
centricity
, 17–18
experience
, 19
satisfaction
, 54–55
Contemporary media. See also Social media
environment
, 16–17
technologies
, 47
Contemporary urban-first life
, 1–2
Content
, 7, 9, 11–12, 16, 53–54, 85–86, 100–101, 135–136, 139–140
Continuous reproduction process
, 96–97
Cornucopia
, 72–73
Coronavirus
lockdown of spring 2020
, 1
pandemic
, 1
Correlation
, 84–85, 108–109
Correlational machines
, 108–109
COVID-19 pandemic
, 137
Criminality
, 48–49
Curation
, 26, 52–53, 58, 98
Customers
, 8
Cutting-edge matching algorithms
, 24–25
Cyberspace
, 125
Cybertype
, 7–8
Cyborg
, 48
Data
, 1, 22–23
abstractions
, 137
analytics
, 118
circulations
, 137
data-based determinism
, 13
data-based models
, 3
data-crunching algorithms
, 47–48
data-driven apps
, 30
data-driven decisions
, 110–111
data-informed audience
, 99–100
extraction
, 34–35
harvesting process
, 23–24
interfaces
, 137
intermediaries
, 80
loops
, 3
mould
, 28–37
production
, 47
reality
, 109
science
, 107–108
sensing
, 29–30
Datafication. See also Betafication
, 2–3, 5, 15–16, 22, 29, 31–32, 47, 79, 107, 118
Dataism
, 31
Dataveillance
, 67
Debugging
, 16–17, 30–31, 57, 137
Deep learning
, 110–111
Deep mediatisation
, 5–6
Deep neural networks
, 113
Deepfake
, 86
Degree of commonality
, 78–79
Degree of interactivity
, 121
Degree of malleability
, 51
Degree of scrutiny
, 56
Delighting and detesting engagement
, 101–102
Dematerialization
, 60–61
Digital
augmentations
, 110–111
capture
, 38–39
communication infrastructure
, 80
digital-first world
, 62, 81–82
hybridity
, 114
immersive capacity
, 47–48
information
, 50
infrastructures
, 8
media
, 3
promises and challenges of
, 107–117
rationality
, 118
realm
, 28–29
self
, 18
systems
, 83–84
traces
, 81–82
transformations
, 7–8
Digital Influence Machine
, 21
Digitisation
, 79, 107
Discursive materiality
, 52
Disimagined communities
, 12, 95–96
Distributed memory
, 60–61
Dividual self
, 122
Doppelganger
, 3, 48–51, 54–55, 61
Economic model of supply and demand
, 26–27
Economy
, 77
Emotional persuasion
, 77
Emotive politics
, 93
Empowerment
, 54
Enthralment
, 59–60
Environment(al)
, 4
affordances
, 10–11
conditions
, 15
debugging
, 34–35
modification
, 18
Experience
aliveness of
, 135–136
consumer
, 19
data-for-experience
, 12
digital architectures
, 82
enthralling
, 18
personalised experience cocoons
, 15–16
product
, 21
of storytelling
, 51
Extended Reality technologies
, 139
False sense of isolation
, 119
Falsehood
, 96–97
Falsely anthropocentric civilisation
, 1–2
Finality, lack of
, 2–3
Flat topology
, 133
Fluidity
, 1, 134
Freedom
, 59
Friendship
, 48–49
Fundamental decipherability
, 111
Gameplay
, 74
Games
, 74
Gamification
, 25–26, 59
Gaming
, 120
Gaze
, 15–16, 30–31, 65
Gibson’s environmental psychology
, 10–11
Google
, 8–9, 63
Governance
, 59
algorithmic
, 41, 96
Hacking
, 67–68
Hooking
, 101, 103
Human(s)
, 1
dignity
, 122
embeddedness
, 137
human-data-algorithm agglomeration
, 79
human-data-code-technology-infrastructure agglomerations
, 127–128
human–computer interfaces
, 123
human–digital interactions
, 120
human–environment interactions
, 15
and technology
, 9
user
, 2–3
Hyper-competitive fragmentation
, 17–18
Hyper-productivity
, 71
Idealism
, 132
Identity
, 48–49, 63
political
, 90–91
of self
, 66
shifting
, 48
verification
, 135
Image cultivation
, 61
Immanent subjectivity
, 125–126
Immersion
, 47–48
world of
, 47–56
In-group radicalisation
, 78–79
Independent workers
, 62–63
Indicatorization
, 38–39
Industrial Revolution
, 10
Information value
, 83
Informational wrapping
, 102–103
Informative fictions
, 100
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
, 104–105
Integrated commodity
, 28–29
Inter-human interactions
, 15
Interactivity
, 52–54
Interfaces
, 22–23
Internet
, 16, 60–61
Internet of Things (IoT)
, 4–5, 27, 115
interconnectedness of
, 44
Interveillance
, 56–57
Knowledge
, 6, 13, 25–26, 31–32, 108, 110, 114–115, 121
algorithmic
, 108
statistical
, 110
Leader-qua-ventriloquist
, 96
Leadership
, 95
Leisure
, 22–23, 47–48, 59, 72–73, 111–112
Life
, 1–2
Logic of connective action
, 26
Love
, 48–49
Machine learning
, 24–25, 43, 107–108, 112
Machine models
, 116
Malleability
, 1, 3, 15–17, 32, 82, 138
Malleable environment
emergence of data mould
, 28–37
struggle over attention
, 16–28
technological-affective interface
, 37–46
Malleable political
(Re-)establishing collective
, 86–97
algorithmic structuring of social
, 77–86
political actors and audiences
, 97–106
Malleable self
all work and no play makes user dull commodity
, 69–76
work on/of self
, 56–69
world of immersion
, 47–56
Marketing strategies
, 42
Mass customisation
, 100–101
Mass personalization
, 19
Materialist approaches
, 124–125
Media technologies
, 4–5
Mediatisation
, 5–6, 43, 66
Meme-making process
, 90–91
Memes
, 88, 90–92
Message dissemination
, 77
Metadata
, 15–16, 21–22, 60–61
Metaphors
, 7
Metapopulist leader
, 99
Metaverse
, 139–140
Methodology
, 132–133
Mind-body dualism
, 123
Mobilization
, 52, 77, 85, 91–92, 101–102
Multi-dimensional calculative space
, 5–6
Multiple personalisation measures
, 20
Mutual domestication
, 123–124
Mutual reinforcement
, 70–71
Mythology
, 31
Narrative value
, 83
Necessity of debugging
, 2–3
Network effects
, 8
Network society
, 6–7
Neural networks
, 27–28
New reality
, 1–5
News-finds-me perception
, 86–87
Non-humans in co-creating
, 110
Non-materiality of digital
, 114
Non-representational theory
, 130–131
Normalisation of profile checking
, 33–34
Object-oriented ontology
, 131, 133
Ongoingness
, 128–131
Online games
, 60–61
Online platforms
, 8–9, 57
Online self
, 56–57
Ontology
, 1–2
of visibility
, 66
Opinion-incongruent information
, 101
Organisation-wise
, 83–84
Ownership
, 22–23
Pandemic
, 4–5
Participationist
, 94
Permanent beta-like malleability
, 45
Permanently beta life
, 15
Personal believability
, 99
Personalisation
, 19–21, 47, 49, 53–54, 58, 96
Persuasion process
, 85
Photo-sharing sites
, 60–61
Photography
, 53–54
Platform as a service (PaaS)
, 104–105
Platform economy
, 8, 62–63, 77–78, 94, 134
Platform ecosystem
, 77–78
Platform party
, 87, 93–94
Platform-based gig economy
, 94
Platformisation
, 2–3, 29, 107
Play
, 59
Political actors
, 104–106
and audiences
, 97–106
Political fandom
, 91
Political fragmentation
, 78–79
Political processes
, 77
Political promotionalism
, 98
Politics-as-a-service model (PolaaS model)
, 12, 104–105
Post-humanist research methodology
, 1, 108
Post-qualitative method
, 133
Post-truth
, 77
Posthuman
, 107, 114–115
from anthropocentric to agglomeration-centric
, 128–136
condition
, 137
ethic
, 107
promises and challenges of digital
, 107–117
revelations
, 117–128
Posthumanism
, 10, 118–120
Pre-empt reality
, 108
Prediction products
, 35–36
Predictive analytics
, 107
Predominant ideology
, 110–111
Preference-based targeting
, 85
Prescriptive analytics
, 107
Presidentialist
, 94
Producers
, 8
Profile
, 12, 66
checking
, 33–34
data
, 110
identifiable
, 56–57
profile-based consumer work
, 5–6
Profiling
, 107
Programmable objects
, 58–59
Programmed sociality
, 81–82
Progressive technological immersion
, 47–48
Promethean anthropocentrism
, 127
Prosumers
, 29
Protean shape-shifting self
, 138
Pseudo-objectivity
, 49
Public formation
, 88
Quantification
, 66–67
Quantitative inequalities
, 70
Rational debate
, 78–79
Rationality
digital
, 118
neoliberal
, 67–68
Reality
, 132
Reason
human
, 108–109
inductive reasoning
, 111
level of abstraction
, 128
Reembodiment
, 60–61
(Re-)establishing collective conditions
, 86–97
Regulators
, 80
Relationality
, 124
Resource
cognitive
, 116
exploitable
, 22
guided emotion acts as
, 97
information
, 34–35
symbolic
, 87
Rules-based approach
, 105
Satisfaction
, 7, 104
constant
, 103
consumer
, 54–55
user
, 22
Scrutiny
, 38, 56, 80–81
Search engine optimisation
, 23
Selectivity
, 16–17
(Self-)crafting
, 66
Self-optimisation
, 66–67
Self-presentation
, 63
Self-projection
, 61
Self-quantification
, 67–68
Self-tracking
, 69
Sensemaking
, 15–16
Sensing
, 32
Sensor
power
, 32
society
, 33
Sentiment analysis
, 98
Service providers
, 8
Sharing
, 60–61
Smart city
, 4
Smart devices
, 115
Smart media platforms
, 29–30
Social, algorithmic structuring of
, 77–86
Social embeddedness
, 112
Social media
, 12, 47, 53–54, 60–61, 138
platforms
, 78
profile
, 21–22
Social network services
, 27
Social robots
, 43–44
Society
, 77–78
Socio-political life
, 79
Socio-technico-natural compound
, 47–48
Software as a service (SaaS)
, 104–105
Space
, 6–7
Spectacularisation
, 66
Speed
, 21
Spotify
, 52–53
Statistical abstraction
, 6
Storytelling
, 101
Stress
, 38
Structuring
, 15–16
Subjectivity
, 114
Suppliers
, 8
Surveillance
, 24, 30
capitalism
, 31–32, 65
data-based surveillance
, 67
environmental
, 5–6
optimisation-oriented surveillance
, 67
Synchronous online teaching
, 1–2
Targeting
, 6, 17–18, 36–37, 78
capacity
, 105–106
possibilities
, 36–37
of pre-discovered affective proclivities
, 28
precision-targeting
, 78
real-time geodemographic
, 19
Tech platforms
, 9
Techno-paternalism
, 109
Technological/technology
, 1, 31, 60, 86
humans and
, 9
modification of human
, 127
technological-affective interface
, 37–46
unemployment
, 71–72
Time
, 6–7
Transcendental universalism
, 123
Transformations of leadership
, 98
Tribal affinity
, 92
Trolling
, 91–92
Truth
, 107–108
arbiter of
, 82–83
degree of
, 112–113
group-based truths
, 83
monopoly of
, 102
post-truth
, 77
Ubiquitous electronics
, 21–22
Universal basic income (UBI)
, 71–72, 74–75
Unsupervised machine learning algorithms
, 120
User
agreements
, 22–23
user-driven selection
, 98
user-generated content
, 29
user/consumer engagement
, 23
Valorization procedures
, 111–112
Value
, 24–25, 28–29, 122
of attention
, 26–27
economic
, 33
generation of
, 8
implicit
, 32
information
, 83
of object
, 18
surplus
, 33
Ventriloquism
, 96
Ventriloquist
, 96–97
Video-sharing sites
, 60–61
Virtual reality
, 35, 47, 52–54, 59–60, 74, 101
Virtual worlds
, 60–61
Visceral appeal
, 92
Visibility. See also Rationality
, 23, 25
algorithmic structuration of
, 65
games
, 63
glossy
, 97–98
permanent
, 19
politics of
, 97–98
technological optimisation of
, 61
Web pages
, 60–61
Western civilization
, 96
Western culture
, 120
Willingness-to-pay of a customer
, 29–30
Work on/of self
, 56–69
Wrapping
, 58
consumers
, 15–16, 33
Writing process
, 1
- Prelims
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Malleable Environment: Attention, Sensing and Wrapping
- Chapter 2 The Malleable Self: Immersion, Self-optimisation and Gamification
- Chapter 3 The Malleable Political: Ascription, Shareability and Ventriloquism
- Chapter 4 The Posthuman: False Centrisms, Flat Ontology and Immersive Methodology
- Conclusions and Future Directions
- References
- Index