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Digital Totalitarianism - Algorithms and Society (Hardcover)
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Digital Totalitarianism - Algorithms and Society (Hardcover)
Series: Algorithms and Society
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Digital Totalitarianism: Algorithms and Society focuses on
important challenges to democratic values posed by our
computational regimes: policing the freedom of inquiry, risks to
the personal autonomy of thought, NeoLiberal management of human
creativity, and the collapse of critical thinking with the social
media fueled rise of conspiranoia. Digital networks allow for a
granularity and pervasiveness of surveillance by government and
corporate entities. This creates power asymmetries where each
citizen's daily 'data exhaust' can be used for manipulative and
controlling ends by powerful institutional actors. This volume
explores key erosions in our fundamental human values associated
with free societies by covering government surveillance of
library-based activities, cognitive enhancement debates, the
increasing business orientation of art schools, and the
proliferation of conspiracy theories in network media. Scholars and
students from many backgrounds, as well as policy makers,
journalists and the general reading public will find a
multidisciplinary approach to questions of totalitarian tendencies
encompassing research from Communication, Rhetoric, Library
Sciences, Art and New Media.
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