Format:
VI, 409 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:
9780262539739
Content:
This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley – led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the inequality, marginalization, and biases in our technological systems, showing how they are not just minor bugs to be patched, but part and parcel of ideas that assume technology can fix – and control – society. The essays in Your Computer Is on Fire interrogate how our human and computational infrastructures overlap, showing why technologies that centralize power tend to weaken democracy. These practices are often kept out of sight until it is too late to question the costs of how they shape society. From energy-hungry server farms to racist and sexist algorithms, the digital is always IRL, with everything that happens algorithmically or online influencing our offline lives as well. Each essay proposes paths for action to understand and solve technological problems that are often ignored or misunderstood.
Note:
Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register
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Your computer is on fire
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When did the fire start?
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The cloud is a factory
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Your AI is a human
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A network is not a network
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The internet will be decolonized
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Sexism is a feature, not a bug
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Gender is a corporate tool
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Siri disciplines : Halcyon M. Lawrence
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Your robot isn't neutral
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Broken is word
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You can't make games about mcuh
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Coding is not empowerment
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Source code isn't
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Skills will not set you free
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Platforms are infrastructures on fire
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Typing is dead
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How to stop worrying about clean signals and start loving the noise
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How do we live now? : in the aftermath of ourselves
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Your computer is on fire Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2021 ISBN 9780262360784
Language:
English
Subjects:
Computer Science
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Sociology
Keywords:
Techniksoziologie
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Technikphilosophie
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Digitale Revolution
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Digitalisierung
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Gesellschaft
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Soziale Gerechtigkeit
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Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Mullaney, Thomas S. 1978-
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