From Hand to Screen to Cloud: What is your Postdigital Positionality?
9 December @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Sarah Hayes’s book: Postdigital Positionality (2021) depicted the Internet as a ‘virtual airing cupboard’, where our hybrid human activities blur into ‘the cloud’ and fragment into biodigital data. Now that Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) is redistributing our fragmented selves, skills and language, this raises pressing new questions of ethics, ownership, disadvantage, creativity and environmental damage. In this lecture, Sarah discusses how others have taken forward her concept of ‘postdigital positionality’, using different media to critically capture personal narratives from local and global communities. This talk invites those present to explore their own personal stance on the postdigital reality that we all now occupy.
Sarah Hayes is Professor of Education and Research Lead in the School of Education, at Bath Spa University. Sarah’s research examines society through a postdigital lens. Her books include: The Labour of Words in Higher Education (2019), Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (2022) and Human Data Interaction, Disadvantage and Skills in the Community (2023). Sarah is an Associate Editor for Postdigital Science and Education journal.
