Pinchevski, A. (2019). Transmitted wounds: Media and the mediation of trauma. Oxford University Press. 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. Alongside this, Jenny leads on the 1:1 iPad strategy across the MAT and is passionate about technology complementing and enhancing teaching and learning both academically and in developing purposeful life skills. Stephen Sadler’s career began at a London Design Consultancy before moving into the field of exhibition design, international sales, marketing and product development.

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Singh, G. (2019). The death of web 2.0: Ethics, connectivity and recognition in the twenty-first century. Routledge. Turkle, S. (2011). Alone together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other. Basic Books. 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 XponentialEQIsaacs Russell, G. (2015). Screen relations. The limits of computer-mediated psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Routledge. Wang, C. (2021). The passivity of seeing: A Lacanian perspective on pornographic spectatorship in virtual reality. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-021-00215-7 However, those yet to be connected remain cut off from the benefits of this new era and remain further behind. Many of the people left behind are women, the elderly, persons with disabilities or from ethnic or linguistic minorities, indigenous groups and residents of poor or remote areas. The pace of connectivity is slowing, even reversing, among some constituencies. For example, globally, the proportion of women using the internet is 12 per cent lower than that of men. While this gap narrowed in most regions between 2013 and 2017, it widened in the least developed countries from 30 per cent to 33 per cent.

Heather D. Benoit, a senior managing director of strategic foresight, wrote, “I imagine a world in which information is more useful, more accessible and more relevant. By 2035, AIs should be able to vet information against other sources to verify its accuracy. They should also be able to provide this information to consumers at the times that make the most sense based on time of day, activity and location. Furthermore, some information would be restricted and presented to each individual based on their preferences and communication style. I imagine we’ll all have our own personal AIs that carry out these functions for us, that we trust and that we consider companions of a sort.” Zajc, M. (2015). Social media, Prosumption, and Dispositives: New mechanisms of the construction of subjectivity. Journal of Consumer Culture, 15(1), 28–47.

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Johanssen, J. (2021a, ed.). Psychoanalysis, sexualities and networked media. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. Special issue, (2). Bandinelli, C., & Bandinelli, A. (2021). What does the app want? A psychoanalytic interpretation of dating apps’ libidinal economy. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. Paul Epping, chairman and co-founder of XponentialEQ, predicted, “The way we think and communicate will change. Politics, as we know it today, will disappear because we will all be hyperconnected in a hybrid fashion: physically and virtually. Governments and politics have, in essence, been all about control. That will be different. Things will most likely be ‘governed’ by AI. Therefore, our focus should be on developing ‘good’ AI. The way we solve things today will not be possible in that new society. It has been said that first we create technology and then technology creates us. At that point, tech will operate on a direct cognitive level. Radical ‘neuroconnectivity’ has exponentially more possibilities than we can imagine today; our old brains will not be able to solve new problems anymore. Technology will create the science that we need to evolve. 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.