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Digital Detachment

Digital Detachment

How Computer Culture Undermines Democracy

by Chet A. Bowers
Hardback
Publication Date: 07/03/2016

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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.

ISBN:
9781138186842
9781138186842
Category:
Politics & government
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
07-03-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Routledge
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4mm
Weight:
0.32kg

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