000			01383nam a22001697a 4500
999			_c25545 _d25545
020			_a9781138186842
082			_a303.4833 _bBOW-D
100			_aBowers, Chet
245			_aDigital detachment _b: how computer culture undermines democracy
260			_aNew York _bRoutledge _c2016
300			_axviii, 103p.
504			_aInclude Bibliography and Index
520			_aThe digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways: (1) it increases the economic and political power of the elites controlling and interpreting the data; (2) it is based on the deep assumptions of market liberalism that do not recognize environmental limits; (3) it undermines face-to-face and context-specific forms of knowledge; (4) it undermines awareness of the metaphorical nature of language; (5) its promoters are driven by the myth of progress and thus ignore important cultural traditions of the cultural commons that are being lost; and (6) it both by-passes the democratic process 　and colonizes other cultures. This book provides an in-depth examination of these phenomena and connects them to questions of educational reform in the US and beyond.
546			_a
650			_aDemocracy _vInformation society--Political aspects _vInternet--Political aspects _vInformation technology--Political aspects
942			_2ddc _cBK