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The False Promises of the Digital Revolution: How Computers transform Education, Work, and International Development in Ways that are Ecologically Unsustainable (Counterpoints, Band 469) - Softcover

Bowers, C.A

 
9781433126123: The False Promises of the Digital Revolution: How Computers transform Education, Work, and International Development in Ways that are Ecologically Unsustainable (Counterpoints, Band 469)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1433126125 ISBN 13: 9781433126123
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

The False Promises of the Digital Revolution examines what currently goes largely unnoticed because of the many important uses of digital technologies. While many people interpret digital technologies as accelerating the global rate of progress, C. A. Bowers focuses attention on how they reinforce the deep and ecologically problematic cultural assumptions of the West: the myth of progress, the substitution of data for different cultural traditions of wisdom, the connections between print and abstract thinking, the myth of individual autonomy, the conduit view of language that hides how words (metaphors) reproduce earlier misconceptions, and a Social Darwinian justification for colonizing other cultures that is now leading to armed resistance – which, in turn, strengthens the ties between corporations, the military, and the computer science industry. The book also investigates how to understand the cultural non-neutrality of digital technologies; how print and the emphasis on data undermine awareness of the tacit information pathways between cultural and natural ecologies; and how to identify educational reforms that will contribute to a more informed public about the uses of digital technologies.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

C. A. Bowers (PhD, University of California) is a semi-retired professor who still writes and gives talks on educational reforms that address the cultural roots of the ecological crisis. He has written 24 books and has been invited to speak at 39 foreign and 42 American universities. His earlier book, Let Them Eat Data, has been translated into Japanese and Chinese.

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Verlag
Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1433126125
ISBN 13 
9781433126123
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
119
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