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Critical Realism and Digital Technologies: Platforms, AI and Human Agency

What does it mean to be human in an age of generative AI and ubiquitous platforms? This joint book launch brings together two new works that draw on critical realism to interrogate digital technologies and their implications for education, selfhood and society. Jérémie Bouchard presents Humanising Language Education in the Generative Artificial Intelligence Age, examining GenAI’s presence in language education and written composition with insight from both critical realism and social realism. Mark Carrigan presents Platform and Agency: Becoming Who We Are, exploring how platforms shape personal and collective reflexivity across biographical timescales. Following the authors’ presentations, responses from Helen Beetham, Dave Elder-Vass, Clive Lawson and Angela Dy will open up a broader conversation about critical realism’s contribution to understanding digital life.