Digital Detachment

How Computer Culture Undermines Democracy

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
Cover of the book Digital Detachment by Chet A Bowers, Taylor and Francis
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Author: Chet A Bowers ISBN: 9781317286325
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: January 29, 2016
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Chet A Bowers
ISBN: 9781317286325
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: January 29, 2016
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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