Digital Detachment: How Computer Culture Undermines Democracy
Digital Detachment: How Computer Culture Undermines Democracy by Chet A Bowers
English | Feb. 28, 2016 | ISBN: 1138186864, 1138186848 | 122 Pages | AZW3/MOBI/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 2.59 MB
English | Feb. 28, 2016 | ISBN: 1138186864, 1138186848 | 122 Pages | AZW3/MOBI/EPUB/PDF (conv) | 2.59 MB
This book provides an in-depth examination of these phenomena and connects them to questions of educational reform in the US and beyond.
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;
(6) it both by-passes the democratic process and colonizes other cultures.