{"title":"De-realization and Infra-humanization","authors":"Simon Gottschalk, Celene Fuller","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190082161.013.3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, we suggest that our enforced interactions with digital technologies impose a series of adjustments that (a) induce a de-realization of our experience of everyday life, and (b) facilitate the infra-humanization of those with whom we interact through those technologies. De-realization is induced by temporal disorganization, ephemerality, spatial detachment, sensory incongruity, impairment in our capacity for information-processing and reality-testing, and personalization. Infra-humanization is prompted by the unique aspects of digital interactions, the condition of permanent surveillance, and increasing interactions with non-human agents. De-realization and infra-humanization mutually influence each other, produce significant transformations in the human experience, and present severe risks.","PeriodicalId":321688,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interaction","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190082161.013.3","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this chapter, we suggest that our enforced interactions with digital technologies impose a series of adjustments that (a) induce a de-realization of our experience of everyday life, and (b) facilitate the infra-humanization of those with whom we interact through those technologies. De-realization is induced by temporal disorganization, ephemerality, spatial detachment, sensory incongruity, impairment in our capacity for information-processing and reality-testing, and personalization. Infra-humanization is prompted by the unique aspects of digital interactions, the condition of permanent surveillance, and increasing interactions with non-human agents. De-realization and infra-humanization mutually influence each other, produce significant transformations in the human experience, and present severe risks.