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Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought - Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice (Paperback)
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Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought - Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Series on Digital Spaces
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This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of
technological advance that produce inequalities and automated
governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought,
and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic
designs. The book situates digital-era problems relative to those
of previous sociotechnical milieux and argues that technical
advance perennially embeds corrosive effects on social relations
and relations of production, recognizing variation across contexts
and relative to entrenched societal hierarchies of race and other
axes of difference and their intersections. Societal tolerance,
despite abundant evidence for harmful effects of digital
technologies, requires attention. The book explains blindness to
social injustice by technocratic thinking delivered through
education as well as truths embraced in the data sciences coupled
with governance in universities and the private sector that protect
these truths from critique. Institutional inertia suggests benefits
of communitarianism, which strives for change emanating from civil
society. Scaling postcapitalist communitarian values through
communitybased peer production presents opportunities. However,
enduring problems require critical reflection, continual revision
of strategies, and active participation among diverse community
citizens. This book is written with critical geographic
sensibilities for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and
graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences,
humanities, and data sciences.
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