Digital Detachment: How Computer Culture Undermines Democracy

by Chet A. Bowers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138186864
• ISBN13: 9781138186866
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.9" x 8.7"