David Kreps - Understanding Digital Events

This book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience. Focusing on the event-ontologies of Bergson and Whiteheads process metaphysics, it explores subjective experience and objective reality as unified events in the form of concrete slabs of existence. Such slabs are temporally defined by a term or period, in which all physical-chemical processes and personal subjective experience are included. Bringing together insights from a range of different specialisms, it urges us to consider a science of nature that includes both physical and non-physical realities and, from this ontological position, draws on philosophy, media and user experience practice to provide a new account of the technological or virtual world of today. An examination of the manner in which process philosophy may be applied to contemporary digital experience, this volume will appeal to scholars of philosophy, science and technology studies and information systems.

David Kreps is a Reader in Philosophy of Information Systems at the University of Salford, UK, and British Academy Mid-Career Fellow. His books include This Changes Everything: ICT and Climate Change What Can We Do?; Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems; Technology and Intimacy: Choice or Coercion; Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence; and Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment. He is an active member of the UNESCO affiliated International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and current Chair of IFIP Technical Committee 9 on ICT and Society.

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Edited by Klber Ghimire

Science, Africa and Europe

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Edited by Patrick Harries, Martin Lengwiler and Nigel Penn

The Sociology of Structural Disaster

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The Cultural Authority of Science

Comparing across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas

Edited by Martin W. Bauer, Petra Pansegrau, and Rajesh Shukla

Blockchain and Web 3.0

Social, Economic, and Technological Challenges

Edited by Massimo Ragnedda and Giuseppe Destefanis

Understanding Digital Events

Bergson, Whitehead, and the Experience of the Digital

Edited by David Kreps

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Elizabeth Buie is a Senior User Experience Consultant at Sigma Consulting Solutions, UK, with more than 35 years of experience in providing specialist assistance with design to foster positive experiences in the people who use the products and services. She is co-editor of the book Usability in Government Systems: User Experience Design for Citizens and Public Servants . Elizabeth has masters degrees in mathematics and in human development and a PhD in design research.

Chris Bush is part of Sigma Consulting Solutions, UK. Chris leads the Experience Design team at Sigma and has over 15 years experience specialising in usability and inclusion. He counts himself lucky to have worked on many successful high-profile projects, across a wide variety of sectors and technologies, for both national and global brands including BBC, InterContinental Hotels Group, Citizens Advice and AstraZeneca. Chris talks about design, usability and inclusion at local, national and international events and conferences, and he supports a number of grass-roots community groups including Northern UX and UXmentors.

Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria, and President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. He is the author of nine books and numerous articles on ethics of technology and related topics, especially ethics of robotics and AI. He contributes to national and European policy making, for example as a member of the High Level Expert Group on AI of the European Commission.

Malcolm Garrett is Creative Director at the design consultancy Images&Co a creative partnership with Kasper de Graaf established in 1981. Widely regarded as a key influence on the development of contemporary British graphic design, Malcolm created landmark designs for Buzzcocks, Duran Duran, Boy George, Simple Minds and Peter Gabriel. Introducing computers to the design studio in the mid-1980s, Malcolm was one of the first designers of his generation to apply himself entirely to interaction design and design for digital platforms, establishing pioneering digital agency AMX in 1994. The first RSA Royal Designer in new media in 2000, he was elected Master of the Faculty from 2013 to 2015. Recognised with a number of Honorary Professorships and Doctorates, he was one of the first ten designers to be inducted into the Design Week Hall of Fame in 2015. Malcolm is an Ambassador of Manchester School of Art, and is a Founder and Joint Artistic Director of the annual Design Manchester festival.

Yasushi Hirai is Professor of Philosophy at Fukuoka University, Japan, Director of Project Bergson in Japan (PBJ), leading an international collaborative research called Expanded Bergsonism. He is co-editor of Rebooting Bergsons Matter and Memory : Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Expanded Bergsonism (in Japanese, Shoshi Shinsui 2018); Diagnoses of Bergsons Matter and Memory : Developments toward the Philosophy of Temporal Experience, Sciences of Consciousness, Aesthetics, and Ethics (Shoshi Shin-sui 2017); and The Anatomy of Bergsons Matter and Memory : Connections with the Contemporary Theories of Perception, Mind and Time (Shoshi Shinsui 2016). He also serves on the board of directors of Socit des Amis de Bergson , Paris.