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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 - Couverture rigide

Bowers, C.a

 
9781433126130: The False Promises of the Digital Revolution: How Computers transform Education, Work, and International Development in Ways that are Ecologically Unsustainable
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ISBN 10 : 1433126133 ISBN 13 : 9781433126130
Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2014

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1433126133
ISBN 13 
9781433126130
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
129
Coordonnées du fabricant
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