The Digital’s New Narrative

Professor Luciano Floridi presents:

The Digital’s New Narrative

Part of the University of Brighton’s College of Life, Health and Physical Sciences – Distinguished Lecture Series.

We increasingly live in a world of information (infosphere), built on data.

Professor Floridi argues that new technologies are telling a story in new ways, breaking the boundaries between information available within a given environment and outside it.

He will explore changes in the way we use and interpret data and new Information and Communication technologies. He explains that we are moving to a transdiegetisation of the infosphere, as increasingly information can be available inside or outside a given environment in a dynamic way.

This lecture will draw on examples from film studies and game design. In particular, exploring how health is taking advantage of these developments through, for example, wearable technologies such as fitness tracking apps and devices.

Professor Luciano Floridi: Biography

Professor Luciano Floridi is an international expert on the philosophy and ethics of information, two research areas he has contributed to establish. He is currently Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, where he is the Director of Research and Senior Research Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute, Governing Body Fellow of St Cross College, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, and Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy of the Department of Computer Science.

Outside Oxford, Professor Floridi is Adjunct Professor of the Department of Economics, American University, Washington D.C. He is currently member of Google Advisory Board on “the right to be forgotten”. He is a recipient of the APA's Barwise Prize, the IACAP's Covey Award, and the INSEIT's Weizenbaum Award. He is also an AISB and BCS Fellow, and a Fellow of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences.

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