onlife

Onlife is a neologism coined by philosopher Luciano Floridi in 2012. The concept is a portmanteau of online and life referring to "the new experience of a hyperconnected reality within which it is no longer sensible to ask whether one may be online or offline".{{Cite book |title=The Onlife Manifesto |date=2015 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-319-04092-9 |editor-last=Floridi |editor-first=Luciano |location=Cham |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-04093-6 |doi-access= free |title-link=doi}} {{open access}}{{rp|1}} The term has taken inspiration from Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition (1958) "to better understand and articulate the interactions of [Information and communications technology] with notions of public space in particular and our contemporary lifeworld more generally".{{Cite journal |last1=Simon |first1=Judith |last2=Ess |first2=Charles |date=March 2015 |title=The ONLIFE Initiative—a Concept Reengineering Exercise |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s13347-015-0189-8 |journal=Philosophy & Technology |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=157–162 |doi=10.1007/s13347-015-0189-8 |issn=2210-5433|url-access=subscription }}{{rp|157}} The term gained significant recognition with the publication of the 2015 Onlife Manifesto, edited by Floridi himself. The manifesto brought together academics from across Europe to discuss the social effects, policy-making, ethical implications, and legal advancements related to hyperconnectivity in Europe and beyond.

Scholarly uses

Onlife as concept has been used internationally by scholar Mireille Hildebrandt in the fields of criminal justice,{{cite book |last1=Hildebrandt |first1=Mireille |title=Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law |date=2016 |publisher=Edward Elgar |isbn=978-1-78643-022-9}} as well as by Surveillance Studies expert David Lyon within sociology.{{cite book |last1=Lyon |first1=David |title=The Culture of Surveillance: Watching as a Way of Life |date=2018 |publisher=Polity Books|isbn= 978-0-745-67173-4}} It also significantly contributed to conceptualise the effects of hyperconnectivity in psychology,{{cite journal |first1=Daniele Valentini|first2=Anna Maria |first3= Achim |last3=Stephan|last1=Valentini|last2= Lorusso | title=Onlife Extremism: Dynamic Integration of Digital and Physical Spaces in Radicalization |journal= Frontiers in Psychology|date=2020 |volume=11 |issue=524 |page=524 |doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00524 |doi-access=free |pmid=32269543|pmc=7109393 }} and technology and law{{cite journal |last1=Turnbull |first1=Amanda |title=Onlife Harms: Uber and Sexual Violence |journal=Canadian Journal of Law & Technology |date=2022 |volume=19 |issue=2|article-number=4|url=https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/cjlt/vol19/iss2/4/}} and criminology.{{Cite journal |last=Szakolczai |first=Janos Mark |date=2023-07-14 |title=Exiting the captaverse: Digital resistance and its limits pre and post the Covid-19 pandemic |journal=Criminology & Criminal Justice |doi=10.1177/17488958231184695 |issn=1748-8958 |pmc=10350582}}{{Cite web |last=Szakolczai |first=Janos |title=Onlife Criminology |url=https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/onlife-criminology |access-date=2024-11-25 |website=Bristol University Press}}

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