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Digital spaces will live in us. Direct connectivity with the digital world and thus with each other will drive us to new dimensions of discovery of ourselves, our species and life in general (thus not only digital life). Paul Epping, chairman and co-founder of XponentialEQ

The Impact of Digital Technologies

Digital spaces will live in us. Direct connectivity with the digital world and thus with each other will drive us to new dimensions of discovery of ourselves, our species and life in general (thus not only digital life). And it will be needed to survive as a species. Since I think that the technologies being used for that purpose are cheaper, faster, smaller and safer, everyone can benefit from it. A lot of the problems along the way will be solved and will have been solved, although new unknowns will brace us for unexpected challenges. E.g.: how will we filter information and what defines the ownership of data/information in that new digital space? Such things must be solved with the future capabilities of thinking in the framework of that time; we can’t solve them with our current way of thinking.” MacRury, I., & Yates, C. (2016). Framing the mobile phone: The psychopathologies of an everyday object. CM: Communication and Media, 11(38), 41–70. Beresheim, D. F. (2020). Circulate yourself: Targeted individuals, the yieldable object & self-publication on digital platforms. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 37(5), 395–408. Bandinelli, C., & Bandinelli, A. (2021). What does the app want? A psychoanalytic interpretation of dating apps’ libidinal economy. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.

Cutting through the vast—and often contradictory—literature on these topics, Reed avoids both techno-hype and techno-pessimism, offering instead succinct, witty and insightful discussions of how digital communication is impacting our lives and reshaping the major social issues of our era. The book argues that making sense of digitized culture means looking past the glossy surface of techno gear to ask deeper questions about how we can utilize technology to create a more socially, politically, and economically just world. Rambatan, B., & Johanssen, J. (2021). Event horizon. Sexuality, politics, online culture, and the limits of capitalism. Zero Books. Jenny Dunne is the Executive Director of Learning at the New Bridge MAT. She has 20 years’ experience of working with children and young people in both mainstream primary schools and Special Educational Needs schools. Mark has experienced other successes during his career, including becoming an ‘Advanced ICT Toolkit Author’ for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) The role included: Jutel, J. (2020). Post-politics. In Y. Stavrakakis (Ed.), Routledge handbook of psychoanalytic political theory (pp. 429–442). Routledge.

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Mark Bashforth has over 14 years' experience of working in an FE college, starting out as a Lecturer in Computing while working in an OFSTED Grade 1 department, teaching a range of IT/ Computing subjects, and leading several courses. Mark has also taken an active lead in other extracurricular activities including setting up and teaching code club sessions and children’s university sessions. Mark was then promoted in 2017 to Curriculum Development Manager for Digital Industries within the FE College. McGowan, T. (2013). Virtual freedom: The obfuscation and elucidation of the subject in cyberspace. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 18(1), 63–70. One of my biggest achievements to date was giving a keynote presentation to 4,000+ executives at Autodesk OTX Copenhagen, Denmark in April 2018.

A fundamental reorientation around these new types of [digital] spaces … will be necessary, but the multiplication of opportunities to interact with friends, neighbors and strangers across the world may have the salutary effect of helping us to be better citizens of these digital spaces and thereby improve them without necessarily changing the fundamental technologies and structures on which they rely. Andrew Tutt, an expert in law expert and author of “ An FDA for Algorithms” Crociani-Windland, L., & Yates, C. (2020). Masculinity, affect and the search for certainty in an age of precarity. Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics, 78, 105–127. My team name is known internationally as Girl Bots. Girl Bots have been competing professionally in Robotics competitions since I was in Year 7 (five years). This season I am currently competing with my Robot I have designed, engineered, built and programmed using the VEX Robotics engineering educational platform. I am the sole programmer, driver, designer and engineer of my Robot.