The first keynote at the IAMCR 2019 conference is by Javier Gomá, whose theme is human dignity. He suggests that dignity is the most revolutionary concept of the 20th century. It has become a widespread concept that animates many modern causes, from unionism through feminism to emerging new political ideologies, and is crucial to many current debates about the role and impact of new technologies, yet remains ignored by many recent philosophical works.
There has been a certain revival of interest in the concept of human dignity in recent years, however. (Argh, the wifi and thus the live translation audio …
The book takes a sceptical view, and shows how these ill-conceived metaphors are actively distracting us from more important questions that are related not to the role of search engines and social media platforms and their algorithms in channelling our information and communication streams, but to the fundamental drivers of a growing societal and …
