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How Computer Culture Undermines Democracy
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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 Biography:

Chet Bowers is a semi-retired university professor who has written 23 books that examine the linguistic/cultural roots of the ecological crisis––and their implications for reforming universities and public schools. He has been an invited speaker at 40 foreign and 42 American universities.
Release date NZ
March 7th, 2016
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Pages
122
Dimensions
152x229x8
ISBN-13
9781138186842
Product ID
23993302

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