Technology and Democracy: Toward A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and Technocapitalism

As we enter a new millennium, it is clear that we are in the midst of one of the most dramatic technological revolutions in history that is changing everything from the ways that we work, communicate, participate in politics, and spend our leisure time. The technological revolution centers on comput...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kellner, Douglas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2021, 2021
Edition:1st ed. 2021
Series:Medienkulturen im digitalen Zeitalter
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Technology and the Demands of Democracy
  • Digital Technologies and Alienation
  • The Media, Democracy, and Spectacle
  • Intellectuals, Citizens, and Digital Technologies in a New Era of Struggle
  • Globalization, Technopolitics, and Revolution
  • Virilio, War, and Technology
  • Vicissitudes of High-Tech War
  • Kubrick’s 2001 and Visions of Techno-Dystopia
  • Digital Technologies, Multi-Literacies, and Democracy: Toward a Reconstruction of Education