The Internet of Animals

Human-Animal Relationships in the Digital Age

By: Deborah Lupton

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Hardcover | 3 July 2023 | Edition Number 1

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'The internet is made of cats' is a half-jokingly made claim. Today, animals of all shapes and sizes inhabit our digital spaces, from the monitoring of wildlife and feral animals to wearable devices and RFID chips for livestock.

In this book, Deborah Lupton explores how digital technologies and datafication are changing our relationships with other animals. Playfully building on the concept of 'The Internet of Things', it discusses the complex relationships and feelings that have developed between people and animals online and through the use of digital devices, from the rapid dissemination of images and information about animals on social media to employing animal-like robots as companions and care devices.

It brings together a range of perspectives including sociology, cultural geography, environmental humanities, critical animal studies and internet studies to consider how these new digital technologies are contributing to major changes in human-animal relationships at both the micropolitical and macropolitical levels. As the book shows, while digital devices and media have strengthened people's relationships to other animals, these technologies can also objectify animals as things for human entertainment, therapy or economic exploitation.

This original and engaging book will be of interest to scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities.

Industry Reviews

"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

"Lupton asks: 'How are human-animal relationships changing?' and 'How are digital media and devices contributing to this change?'. Her wide-ranging exploration broaches many insightful responses to this question, with a useful attention to both pros and cons, though an inevitable weighting toward more regrettable and insidious ramifications."
Randy Malamud, Journal of Animal Ethics

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