Digital Detachment: How Computer Culture Undermines Democracy by Chet A Bowers

Author:Chet A Bowers [Bowers, Chet A]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2016-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

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A different kind of connectivity

How we understand the world, either as fixed, isolated, and thus as made up of autonomous entities or as emergent, relational, and interdependent, is critical to understanding the current problems posed by the globalization of the digital revolution. Beyond the problem of reducing the complex ecologies that underlie what we so casually refer to as knowledge, there is the problem of whether there will be any place for different cultural traditions of wisdom and moral values as data, the decision-making programs of computer experts, and the Western myth of the autonomous (that is, self-centered) individual become more widespread.

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