Table of Contents
Foreword
Martin Wikelski, Director, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Introduction: Why Today’s Little Red Riding Hood Has a Smartphone
in Her Basket
An Old Story in a New Light
Why We Are Now Nothing More Than Beautiful Souls
In the Labyrinth of a Postmodern Awareness of Nature
Why We Know Whether a Swallow is Frightened in a Storm
What Really Happens on the Animal Internet
Why We Should Care If a Frog Wanders Around in China
The New Generation of Working Animals
Why Alexander von Humboldt Hasn’t Logged Off Yet…
The People Behind the Animal Internet
… and Why “Problem Bear” Bruno Might Still Be Alive Today
On New Forms of Coexistence
Why Technology is Not All Bad, and Nature Not All Good
Data Protection for Animals and the Positive Sides of
Transparency
Why Animals Were Always Friends of Humans
A Little Story of Empathy
Why the Internet is Crawling with Cats
The Internet as a Shared Space of Being
Why After Nature, Nature Will Still Exist
Humans and Animals in the Anthropocene
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Media interviews with author Alexander Pschera who speaks excellent
English and is also planning to submit an Op-ed article to major
U.S. newspapers like The New York Times and The Wall Street
Journal.
Excerpts in Wired, Fast Company, Science and Smithsonian
magazines
ARCs distributed to science and nature writers nationwide as well
as to top officials at organizations including the Wildlife
Conservation Society, Audubon Society, the Bronx Zoo, People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Best Friends Animal Society and
Humane Society of the United States.
Alexander Pschera, born in 1964, has published several books on the Internet and media. He studied German, music and philosophy at Heidelberg University. He lives near Munich where he writes for the German magazine Cicero as well as for German radio. Elisabeth Lauffer is the recipient of the 2014 Gutekunst Translation Prize. After graduating from Wesleyan University she lived in Berlin and then obtained a master's in education from Harvard. She now lives in Vermont, where she is the Assistant Director of the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy.
Excerpted in Scientific American "Charts the new digital frontier in the human-animal relationship. Gone are the days of an untouched natural world. We have entered wilderness 2.0 ... [An] intriguing book."--The Washington Post "Bold and fascinating ... proposing that the Internet--and other digital technology--offers an opportunity to rediscover our animals as more than abstracted images but as autonomous individuals with inherent value. A truly thought-provoking book for animal lovers and technology enthusiasts alike."--Kirkus Reviews "This surprising book offers a great shout-out to the next phase in our relationship with non-human beings: our brand-newly emerging recognition that they, too, are individuals, leading individual lives." --Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel and Song for the Blue Ocean "At last, a convincing explanation for why waldrapps are on Twitter and quolls on Facebook. In beautiful, philosophical prose, Alexander Pschera even explains why cats rule the Internet. The first book that brings nature and technology together with animals as individuals and streams of big data alike."--David Rothenberg, author of Bug Music and Survival of the Beautiful "Animal Internet is a most important book. This excellent work could be a strong catalyst for people ... to reconnect and become re-enchanted with all sorts of mysterious and fascinating animals, both local and distant. By shrinking the world it will bring humans and other animals together in a multitude of ways that only a few years ago were unimaginable." --Marc Bekoff, University of Colorado, author of Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence "Humanized pets, industrialized meat, endless sad extinctions: Must our animal future be so bleak? Not according to Alexander Pschera, who envisions humans and wild animals interacting on matters like climate change and conservation through electronic tracking. A fascinating account full of novel and unexpected examples." -- Richard W. Bulliet, author of Hunters, Herders and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships and Professor of History Emeritus, Columbia University "An original book that goes against the trend to stubbornly keep nature and technology divided from one another."--Der Spiegel "Animal Internet is one of the most interesting books that I've read in recent years."--Bavarian Radio "What Pschera describes sounds futuristic but it's already widespread reality ... Pschera's book is not just popular science: he describes not only the status quo, but also thinks about an ongoing transformation."--Wired.de
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