Living in Digital Worlds investigates the relationship between human society and technology, as our private and particularly our public lives are increasingly undertaken in spaces that are inherently digital: digital public spaces.
The book unpicks why digital technology is such an inextricable part of modern society, first by examining the historical relationship between technological development and the early progression of human sociality. This is then followed by an examination of the ways in which modern life is currently being impacted by the expansion of digital information and devices into multiple aspects of our lives, including focuses on privacy, bias and ownership in digital spaces. Finally, it explores potential future developments and their implications, and proposes that it is crucial to consider the design of technology and systems in order to support a positive and beneficial direction of change.
Each chapter includes case studies, primarily drawn from The Creative Exchange, a fiveyear programme which ran from 2012 to 2016 to explore the notion of the digital public space through collaborative cross-sector research.
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Cover 1
Half Title 2
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
List of figures and tables 8
List of case studies 10
Acknowledgements 12
Introduction 14
Section 1
How did we get here? 16
1 Defining the digital public space 18
2 Digital public space for the evolved mind 41
Section 2
What are the attributes and effects of digital public space? 64
3 The physicality of digital public space 66
4 Inhabiting digital information space 94
Section 3
What are the consequences of digital public space? 126
5 Transactions, payment and ownership 128
6 Challenges of the digital public space: privacy and security 153
7 Challenges of the digital public space: bias 178
Section 4
How do we design digital futures? 198
8 Futures of digital public space 200
9 Design processes and management in digital public space 232
References 255
Index 272

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Jacobs, Naomi, Cooper, Rachel

Rachel Cooper, Naomi Jacobs

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Gower Publishing Ltd

CRC Press

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Abingdon Oxon ; New York NY, 2018

London ; New York, 2018

Farnham, Surrey, 2015

1, PS, 2018

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2025-10-27