Your Computer Is on Fire

Thomas S. Mullaney

ISBN 10: 026253973X / ISBN 13: 9780262539739

Verlag: The MIT Press, 2021

Beschreibung

Neu Neuware, Importqualität, auf Lager - Technology scholars declare an emergency: attention must be paid to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.This book sounds an alarm: we can no longer afford to be lulled into complacency by narratives of techno-utopianism, or even techno-neutrality. We should not be reassured by such soothing generalities as 'human error,' 'virtual reality,' or 'the cloud.' We need to realize that nothing is virtual: everything that 'happens online,' 'virtually,' or 'autonomously' happens offline first, and often involves human beings whose labor is deliberately kept invisible. Everything is IRL. In Your Computer Is on Fire, technology scholars train a spotlight on the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers INF1000684441

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Your Computer Is on Fire
• Verlag: The MIT Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 026253973X
• ISBN-13: 9780262539739
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

Technology scholars declare an emergency: attention must be paid to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.

This book sounds an alarm: we can no longer afford to be lulled into complacency by narratives of techno-utopianism, or even techno-neutrality. We should not be reassured by such soothing generalities as "human error," "virtual reality," or "the cloud." We need to realize that nothing is virtual: everything that "happens online," "virtually," or "autonomously" happens offline first, and often involves human beings whose labor is deliberately kept invisible. Everything is IRL. In Your Computer Is on Fire, technology scholars train a spotlight on the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas S. Mullaney is Professor of History at Stanford University and the author of Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China.

Benjamin Peters is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Tulsa and affiliated faculty at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

Mar Hicks is Associate Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Kavita Philip studies colonialism, neoliberalism, and technoscience using history and critical theory. She is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine.