Digital Detachment: How Computer Culture Undermines Democracy - Hardcover

Bowers, Chet A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138186848 ISBN 13: 9781138186842

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138186848
• ISBN 13: 9781138186842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 122