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Technology and (Dis)Empowerment - A Call to Technologists (Hardcover)
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Technology and (Dis)Empowerment - A Call to Technologists (Hardcover)
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The complex relationship between technology and social outcomes is
well known and has recently seen significant attention due to the
deepening of technology use in many domains. This includes issues
such as the reproduction of inequality due to the digital divide,
threats to democracy due to misinformation propagated through
social networking platforms, algorithmic biases that can perpetuate
structural injustices, hardships caused to citizens due to
misplaced assumptions about the gains expected from the use of
information technology in government processes, and simplistic
beliefs that technology can easily lead to social development. This
timely work draws attention to the varying factors by which
technology often leads to disempowerment effects. Featuring a
Foreword by Tim Unwin, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, Seth makes a call to
technologists to burst the technology optimism bubble, build an
ethos for taking greater responsibility in their work, collectivize
to similarly shape the internal governance of their organizations,
and engage with the rest of society to strengthen democracy and
build an acceptance that the primary goal of technology projects
should be to bring equality by overturning unjust societal
structures.
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