'Deborah Lupton is a brilliant guide to animal-human-digital assemblages.'Bill Adams, University of Cambridge'Lupton takes us on a fascinating journey into the past and the future to help us grapple with our intimate relations with animals. We are confronted with how the digital mediates our emotional need to care for and control the creatures that we have come to see as extensions of ourselves.'Payal Arora, Erasmus University, and author of The Next Billion Users
Introduction1 Conceptualising Humans, Animals and Human-Animal Relations2 Animal Enthusiasts, Activism and Politics in Digital Media3 The Quantified Animal and Dataveillance4 Animal Cuteness, Therapy and Celebrity Online5 Animal Avatars and Zoomorphic RobotsConclusion: Reimagining Human-Animal RelationsAppendixReferencesIndex
Deborah Lupton is SHARP Professor, and Leader of the Vitalities Lab and the UNSW Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, at UNSW Sydney.