Digital Detachment - How Computer Culture Undermines Democracy (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Chet A. Bowers
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	122
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-18684-2
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy
LSN:	1-138-18684-8
Barcode:	9781138186842

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