TY - JOUR AU - Dewandre, Nicole PY - 2013/10/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Onlife Manifesto: rethinking the human condition in a hyperconnected era JF - AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research JA - SPIR VL - 3 IS - 0 SE - Papers D DO - UR - https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/9047 SP - AB - The pervasiveness of the changes induced by the deployment of ICTs is such that there is a need to rethink and reconfigure the concepts on which policy frameworks are built. Policy frameworks are still relying on omniscience/omnipotence utopia.It is suggested that Hannah Arendt's framing of the human condition, based on natality and plurality can inspire a renewed sense of what it means to be human in a hyperconnected world.It opens the way for policy-making to shift away from a risk-based and parenting attitude, towards a literacy-based and partnering one, which can vibrate with the collective societal intelligence being expressed in the shaping, uptake, resistance and appropriation of ICTs by individuals and communities. ER -