Digital Detachment: How Computer Culture Undermines Democracy - 9781138186842

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.

• | Author: Chet Bowers
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 07, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 122 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Computers
• | ISBN-10: 1138186848
• | ISBN-13: 9781138186842