Onlife

{{Short description|Neologism coined by Italian philosopher}} '''Onlife''' is a neologism coined by philosopher Luciano Floridi in 2012.<ref name="S & Ess 2015" /> 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".<ref name="manif">{{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}}</ref>{{rp|1}} The term has taken inspiration from Hannah Arendt's ''The Human Condition'' (1958) "to better understand and articulate the interactions of <nowiki>[</nowiki>Information and communications technology<nowiki>]</nowiki> with notions of public space in particular and our contemporary lifeworld more generally".<ref name="S & Ess 2015">{{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 }}</ref>{{rp|157}} The term gained significant recognition with the publication of the 2015 Onlife Manifesto, edited by Floridi himself.<ref name="manif" /> 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,<ref>{{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}}</ref> as well as by Surveillance Studies expert David Lyon within sociology.<ref>{{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}}</ref> It also significantly contributed to conceptualise the effects of hyperconnectivity in psychology,<ref>{{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 }}</ref> and technology and law<ref>{{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/}}</ref> and criminology.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

== References ==

Category:2012 neologisms