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Computers -- Social aspects.
Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Computers -- Social aspects.
Information technology -- Social aspects.
MARC Display
Your
computer
is on
fire
/ edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip.
The MIT Press, 2021, [2020].
Call #:
303.4834 Y81
Subjects
Computers -- Social aspects.
Information technology -- Social aspects.
ISBN:
9780262539739 (pbk)
Description:
vi, 409 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"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."--Publisher.
Genre:
Essays.
Other authors:
Mullaney, Thomas S. (Thomas Shawn)
Peters, Benjamin, 1980-
Hicks, Mar.
Philip, Kavita, 1964-
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