Open AccessAlgorithms, Intuition and Networked Activism
Author(s) -
Carolyn Pedwell
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the thinker
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2075-2458
DOI - 10.36615/thethinker.v82i4.359
Subject(s) - intuition , the internet , digital media , sociology , human body , new media , media studies , epistemology , cognitive science , computer science , psychology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , world wide web
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).