Context Blindness - Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution (Hardcover, New edition)

Are people with autism giving us a glimpse into our future human condition? Could we be driving our own evolution with our technology and, in fact, be witnessing the beginning of the next stage of human evolution? The thesis at the center of this book is that since we have delegated the ability to read context to contextual technologies such as social media, location, and sensors, we have become context blind. Since context blindness-or caetextia in Latin-is one of the most dominant symptoms of autistic behavior at the highest levels of the spectrum, people with autism may indeed be giving us a peek into our human condition soon. We could be witnessing the beginning of the next stage of human evolution-Homo caetextus. With increasingly frequent floods and fires and unbearably hot summers, the human footprint on our planet should be evident to all, but it is not because we are context blind. We can now see and feel global warming. We are witnessing evolution in real-time and birthing our successor species. Our great-grandchildren may be a species very distinct from us. This book is a must for all communication and media studies courses dealing with digital technology, media, culture, and society. And a general reading public concerned with the polarized public sphere, difficulties in sustaining democratic governance, rampant conspiracies, and phenomena such as cancel culture and the need for trigger warnings and safe spaces, will find it enlightening.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Understanding Media Ecology, 10
Release date:	2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Eva Berger
Dimensions:	225 x 150mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	148
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-8613-4
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > General Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > General Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > General
LSN:	1-4331-8613-6
Barcode:	9781433186134

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