Sociophobia: Political Change in the Digital Utopia

by César Rendueles

Book Overview

The great ideological cliche of our time, Cesar Rendueles argues in Sociophobia, is the idea that communication technologies can support positive social dynamics and improve economic and political conditions. We would like to believe that the Internet has given us the tools to overcome modernity's practical dilemmas and bring us into closer relation, but recent events show how technology has in fact driven us farther apart.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231175272
• ISBN13: 9780231175272
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher