Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought
GBP 35.99
Click here to subscribe.
Not in stock at Prospero.
ISBN13: | 9780367625801 |
ISBN10: | 0367625806 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 184 pages |
Size: | 234x156 mm |
Weight: | 340 g |
Language: | English |
575 |
Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks
Social issues, social work
Library and information science in general
Theory of computing, computing in general
Artificial Intelligence
Architecture
Economics
More books in the field of economy
Literature in general, reference works
Linguistics in general, dictionaries
Architecture
Organizational sociology
Political systems and theories
Further readings in politics
Geography
Environmental protection
Social geography
This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and digital-era automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought, prompting a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic designs.
This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought, and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic designs.
The book situates digital-era problems relative to those of previous sociotechnical milieux and argues that technical advance perennially embeds corrosive effects on social relations and relations of production, recognizing variation across contexts and relative to entrenched societal hierarchies of race and other axes of difference and their intersections. Societal tolerance, despite abundant evidence for harmful effects of digital technologies, requires attention. The book explains blindness to social injustice by technocratic thinking delivered through education as well as truths embraced in the data sciences coupled with governance in universities and the private sector that protect these truths from critique. Institutional inertia suggests benefits of communitarianism, which strives for change emanating from civil society. Scaling postcapitalist communitarian values through communitybased peer production presents opportunities. However, enduring problems require critical reflection, continual revision of strategies, and active participation among diverse community citizens.
This book is written with critical geographic sensibilities for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences, humanities, and data sciences.
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Technological Advance across Socio-technical Milieux
3. Pedagogy of Technocracy
4. The ?Normal Science? of the Data Sciences and its Governance
5. Scaling Communitarian Practice
6. Conclusion