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Mental health social work is at an impasse. On the one hand, the
emphasis in recent policy documents on the social roots of much
mental distress ,and in the recovery approaches popular with
service users seems to indicate an important role for a holistic
social work practice. On the other hand, social workers have often
been excluded from these initiatives and the dominant approach
within mental health continues to be a medical one, albeit
supplemented by short-term psychological interventions. In this
short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social
Work series, Jeremy Weinstein draws on case studies and his own
experience as a mental health social worker, to develop a model of
practice that draws on notions of alienation, anti-discriminatory
practice and the need for both workers and service users to find
'room to breathe' in an environment shaped by managerialism and
marketisation.
This is the story of one young Jewish family, Dave and Sylvia and
daughter, Ruth as told through the 700 letters they exchanged -
between Dave at war and Sylvia in England. The letters, always
vivid, sometimes funny, often passionate and moving, begin in 1942,
when Dave first goes abroad on active service, and continue until
he is discharged home in 1945. Their letters provide a unique
picture of life on two Fronts, at war in the 8th Army fighting in
North Africa and Europe, ending in the Army of Occupation in
Germany, and at home surviving the Blitz, rationing, family
rivalries and the struggles entailed in bringing up a young
daughter. It is a very honest and intimate portrayal of the strains
of sustaining a very new marriage and a loving relationship when
they were so far apart and the hopes they both had for a new,
post-war Britain.
Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological
future and reinvigorate democracy along the way. -- Reed Hastings,
co-founder and CEO of Netflix __________ A forward-thinking
manifesto from three Stanford professors which reveals how big
tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed
fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change
course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves. __________ In no
more than the blink of an eye, a naive optimism about technology's
liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with
biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing
robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the
onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological
future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists
who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein. It
doesn't need to be this way. System Error exposes the root of our
current predicament: how big tech's relentless focus on
optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination,
erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we
get. Armed with an understanding of how technologists think and
exercise their power, three Stanford professors - a philosopher
working at the intersection of tech and ethics, a political
scientist who served under Obama, and the director of the
undergraduate Computer Science program at Stanford (also an early
Google engineer) - reveal how we can hold that power to account. As
the dominance of big tech becomes an explosive societal conundrum,
they share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to
help everyone understand what is happening, what is at stake, and
what we can do to control technology instead of letting it control
us.
Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological
future and reinvigorate democracy along the way. -- Reed Hastings,
co-founder and CEO of Netflix __________ A forward-thinking
manifesto from three Stanford professors which reveals how big
tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed
fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change
course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves. __________ In no
more than the blink of an eye, a naive optimism about technology's
liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with
biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing
robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the
onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological
future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists
who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein. It
doesn't need to be this way. System Error exposes the root of our
current predicament: how big tech's relentless focus on
optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination,
erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we
get. Armed with an understanding of how technologists think and
exercise their power, three Stanford professors - a philosopher
working at the intersection of tech and ethics, a political
scientist who served under Obama, and the director of the
undergraduate Computer Science program at Stanford (also an early
Google engineer) - reveal how we can hold that power to account. As
the dominance of big tech becomes an explosive societal conundrum,
they share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to
help everyone understand what is happening, what is at stake, and
what we can do to control technology instead of letting it control
us.
"Weinstein's War" is the rare account of a Jewish soldier serving
in the British Eighth Army during the Second World War. A love
story of a man separated from his young wife and baby daughter,
keeping their passion alive through letters. This is the story of
one young Jewish family, Dave and Sylvia and daughter, Ruth as told
through the 700 letters they exchanged--between Dave at war and
Sylvia in England. The letters, always vivid, sometimes funny,
often passionate and moving, begin in 1942, when Dave first goes
abroad on active service, and continue until he is discharged home
in 1945. Their letters provide a unique picture of life on two
Fronts, at war in the 8th Army fighting in North Africa and Europe,
ending in the Army of Occupation in Germany, and at home surviving
the Blitz, rationing, family rivalries and the struggles entailed
in bringing up a young daughter. It is a very honest and intimate
portrayal of the strains of sustaining a very new marriage and a
loving relationship when they were so far apart and the hopes they
both had for a new, post-war Britain.
Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological
future and reinvigorate democracy along the way. -- Reed Hastings,
co-founder and CEO of Netflix __________ A forward-thinking
manifesto from three Stanford professors which reveals how big
tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed
fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change
course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves. __________ In no
more than the blink of an eye, a naive optimism about technology's
liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with
biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing
robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the
onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological
future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists
who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein. It
doesn't need to be this way. System Error exposes the root of our
current predicament: how big tech's relentless focus on
optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination,
erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we
get. Armed with an understanding of how technologists think and
exercise their power, three Stanford professors - a philosopher
working at the intersection of tech and ethics, a political
scientist who served under Obama, and the director of the
undergraduate Computer Science program at Stanford (also an early
Google engineer) - reveal how we can hold that power to account. As
the dominance of big tech becomes an explosive societal conundrum,
they share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to
help everyone understand what is happening, what is at stake, and
what we can do to control technology instead of letting it control
us.
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