Daniel Zengotita
> Political Theory
PhD Student
University of Florida
Daniel’s work examines how commercial digital technologies shape childhood, focusing on their influence on children’s emerging senses of authorship, liberty, and selfhood. Set against the backdrop of commercial services and transhumanist visions of human enhancement, his research also explores how parents and children resist exploitative forms of digital socialization. It asks how parents may prepare children to survive and thrive in an increasingly hypercompetitive world. Drawing on canonical political theorists alongside interdisciplinary scholarship, his dissertation addresses the contemporary crisis of authorship in the digital age and how these insights help throw off the yoke of behavioral extraction and exploitation.