This book explores how globalization and ubiquity of digital technology combine to create specific global impacts, challenges and opportunities. Although globalization is already associated with the speeding up of interactions and change, digital globalization is characterized by immediacy. The utter pervasiveness opens new global vulnerabilities at international, national, social and personal levels. The Digital Global Condition examines the nature of digital globalization, enabling us to not only inhabit a digital world, but also to understand it, even to live well in it.
Author(s): Elizabeth Kath, Julian C. H. Lee, Aiden Warren
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 252
City: London
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1: The Digital Global Condition
Introduction
Digital Challenges and the Pervasive Impact on Global Affairs
Our Long Digital Tail
References
2: The Imagined Latent Zone: How the Myth of Cultural Authenticity Survived the Covid-19 Lockdowns
Introduction
Cultural Authenticity: Scholarly Critiques Versus Popular Realities
Integrative Relations, Digital Technology and Disembodiment
Space, Place and the Imagined Latent Zone
A Few Stories
Disney’s ‘Encanto’
FIFA World Cup in Russia
Hilaria Baldwin as Cultural Imposter
YouTube Accents at Home
Conclusion
References
3: Disruptive Technologies and New Threat Multipliers
Introduction
Drones: The Precursory Driver
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS): The Intensifying Dimension
Debates in the Discourse
Cyber Security: The Porosity of Threats
Artificial Intelligence: The Accelerator
Futuristic Technologies: There Is No End in Sight
Conclusion
References
4: Digital ‘Natives’: Unsettling the Colony Through Digital Technology
Introduction
Indigenous Public Spheres
‘Recognition’ in the Australian Constitution
Bla(c)k Lives Matter
The Implications of Digital Intensification
Conclusion: Digital Solidarities
References
5: Dangerous Misogyny of the Digital World: The Case of the Manosphere
Introduction
The Nature of Online Spaces
Swallowing the Red Pill
Men’s Rights Activists (MRA)
Pick-up Artists (PUA)
Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW)
Incels
The Danger of the Manosphere
Unsafe Digital Spaces
Online Misogynistic Radicalisation
Translation of Online Violent Rhetoric to Real World Violence
Conclusion
References
6: Technology and Lawyering: On Legal Practice and Value in a Digital Age
Introduction
The Adoption of Digital Technologies in the Legal Profession
Exploring the Lawyers’ Value in the Face of Digital Transformation
Expertise Value
Ethics Value
Human Value
Final Reflections
References
7: The Digital Power Paradox: U.S.-China Competition, Semiconductors, and Weaponized Interdependence
Introduction
Military-Civil Fusion and Made in China 2025
Semiconductor Competition
The Limits of Weaponized Interdependence
Conclusion
References
8: The Political Economy of Digital Educational Content and the Transformation of Learning and Teaching in Global Higher Education
Introduction
Who Chooses? The Lecturer as Content Curator
Who Pays? The Economics of Digital Content
Student-Licensed Content
University-Licensed Content
Open Educational Resources
Conclusion
References
9: Becoming Digital? University Learning and Teaching in the Digital Information Ecology
Introduction
A Framework for Discussion
Scarcity → Ubiquity
Authority → Contested
Isolated → Connected
Textual → Multimedia
References
10: Digital Inter-est: On Being Together in a Global Digital World
Introduction
Connecting with Students Online
As a Counsellor
On Email
Algorithms
On Social Media
By Way of Conclusion
References
