Digital Detachment: How Computer Culture Undermines Democracy Contributor(s): Bowers, Chet a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138186864 ISBN-13: 9781138186866 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science - Computers | Information Technology |
Dewey: 303.483 |
LCCN: 2015034346 |
Physical Information: 0.1" H x 5.9" W x 8.7" (0.40 lbs) 122 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways: (1) it increases the economic and political power of the elites controlling and interpreting the data; (2) it is based on the deep assumptions of market liberalism that do not recognize environmental limits; (3) it undermines face-to-face and context-specific forms of knowledge; (4) it undermines awareness of the metaphorical nature of language; (5) its promoters are driven by the myth of progress and thus ignore important cultural traditions of the cultural commons that are being lost; and (6) it both by-passes the democratic process and colonizes other cultures. This book provides an in-depth examination of these phenomena and connects them to questions of educational reform in the US and beyond. |